Jesus College, Oxford.

Method Etching
Artist Mabel Oliver Rae
Published c. 1920
Dimensions Image and plate 113 x 80 mm, Sheet 197 x 127 mm
Notes Signed and titled in pencil by artist and in the plate.

A scarce etching of Jesus College quad by Mabel Oliver.

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.
Framing unmounted
Price £75.00
Stock ID 51924

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