F. L. Griggs

F. L. Griggs was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, he worked as an illustrator for the Highways and Byways series of regional guides for the publishers, Macmillans. In 1903 he settled at Dover's House, in the market town of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, and went on to create one of the last significant Arts and Crafts houses at 'New Dover's House'. There he set up the Dover's House Press, where he printed late proofs of the etchings of Samuel Palmer, amongst others. He collaborated with Ernest Gimson and the Sapperton group of craftsmen in architectural and design work in the area.

Griggs studied at Slade School of Fine Art. The recorded working language is English. Samuel Palmer is recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are Owlpen Manor. Work by F. Griggs is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Yale Center for British Art and Picker Art Gallery.

• Name — Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs • Born — 30 October 1876 • Birthplace — Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England • Place of death — Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England • Known for — etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator • Training — Slade School of Art • Movement — British Etching Revival • Notable Works — Owlpen Manor, The Almonry, Maur's Farm, Anglia Perdita • Awards — Royal Academician, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers

• Illustration — Etching by F.L. Griggs, "Laneham", 1923 'Fred' Griggs converted to Roman Catholicism in 1912 and set about producing a body of etchings, 57 meticulous plates in a Romantic tradition, evoking an idealised medieval England of pastoral landscapes and architectural fantasies of ruined abbeys and buildings. His best-known etchings include 'Owlpen Manor' (1930), dedicated to his friend, the architect Norman Jewson, 'Anglia Perdita', 'Maur's Farm', 'St Botolph's, Boston', 'The Almonry', and 'Memory of Clavering'. Collections of his etched work are held in the Ashmolean Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Boston Public Library, and in major public collections worldwide.

What the record establishes about F. Griggs is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Griggs is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom. Griggs is recorded with the occupation etcher.