Peckwater Quad, Christ Church, Oxford

Method Etching
Artist Mabel Oliver Rae
Published c. 1920
Dimensions Image and Plate 275 x 180 mm, Sheet 400 x 290 mm
Notes Signed and titled in pencil.

A rare larger scale etching by Mabel Oliver looking towards Canterbury Gate and Merton College tower beyond.

Mabel Oliver was born in Cambridgeshire in (1868- 1956) and trained at the Slade School London in (1888-1890). She was an accomplished painter as well as a printmaker producing etchings known for her rural scenes and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.

Oliver signed her etchings M. Oliver Rae this was believed to conceal her identity as a woman which may have reduced her dealings with agents whom she sold her etchings through particularly those images being sold within the two university towns Oxford and Cambridge.

Condition: Good impression with full margins.
Framing mounted
Price £125.00
Stock ID 49746

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