HILL, Vernon

Vernon Hill
British 1887-
Lithographer, Sculptor and illustrator. He was born in Halifax, 1887, apprenticed to a trade lithographer at thirteen and was a student teacher at seventeen. In 1908 he was working under John Hassall and was published his first illustrations the year following. Hill is strongest as a figure draughtsman and his swirling bodies and large wave nd plant shapes make him a classical equivalent of the Beardsley erotism.
In November 1909, ‘The Bodleain’ referred to him as ‘a youth only just past his teens, his inventions have the internal quality of beauty, his imagination is so rich sa astonishing in its originality, and he is beside so gifted with rare humour, that his work defies comparison with anything known to us….’

Houfe: The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators.

Frittillary. (DRAWING)