Robert Gibbings
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Robert Gibbings (1889 – 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a word carver and engraver and for his books on travel and natural history.
Born in Cork, he studied at University College Cork and later at the Slade School of Art and the Central School of Art.
His principal writings and drawings were of his native Cork, the Thames Valley near London and parts of Polynesia which he visited several times.
Gibbings was the proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press from 1924 until 1933, when he sold it to a fellow native of Cork, Christopher Sandford.
[edit] Works
- Coming Down the Seine
- Sweet Thames Run Softly
- Coming down the Wye
- Trumpets from Montparnasse (1955)
- The Seventh Man
- A True Tale of Love in Tonga
- Blue Angels and Whales
- Sweet Thames Run Softly
- Till I End My Song
- Over the Reefs
- Coconut Island
- John Graham, Convict
- Lovely is the Lee (1945)
- Sweet Cork of Thee (1952)
