Mabel Royds - Three Sketches from her Paris and India Tours Sketchbook

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Seller: pottier ✉️ (1,493) 100%, Location: Nottingham, GB, Ships to: GB & many other countries, Item: 266711292700 Mabel Royds - Three Sketches from her Paris and India Tours Sketchbook . Mabel Royds was born in 1874, the fifth child of eleven to her parents Nathanael Royds and his second wife Hester. Her father was the rector of Little Harford, Bedford. Three simple pencil sketch's by Mabel Allington Royds. Three simple pencil sketch's  by Mabel Allington Royds. These are sketchbook pages done on her travels to Paris and India with her husband Ernest Lumsden in 1913/1914.  The subjects are as the images.  On slightly grubby sketchbook paper with small creases etc as the images. Each sheet approx. size 115mm x 85mm. Studio stamp to the rear of each.  From my own collection.  Postage for UK only. Can quote if required for international. Will combine shipping if you ask for an invoice.  Mabel Allington Royds (1874-1941)  Mabel Royds was born in 1874, the fifth child of eleven to her parents Nathanael Royds and his second wife Hester. Her father was the rector of Little Harford, Bedford.  At the age of fifteen and still a schoolgirl she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy School in London. This she declined and instead went to The Slade to study under Henry Tonks. At the turn of the century, she was in Paris and met and worked with Walter Sickert. She then went to Canada and worked as a lecturer at Havergal College. Later she returned to the UK and joined the staff of Edinburgh College of Art where she met and worked with Morley Fletcher (the principal), J D Ferguson and Samuel Peploe.  In 1913 she married fellow artist and ether Ernest Stephen Lumsden.Their honeymoon tòok them to Paris, Florence and Rome. They later went on to Port Said and Bombay, all fertile grounds for Mabel to sketch and make preliminary drawings for woodcuts. In 1914 Lumsden was rejected by the British army so instead joined the Indian army. In 1916 they both journeyed to India and the Himalayas, paying for their accommodation and food in monasteries by painting portraits of the monks. This journey was the inspiration for many of her woodblock prints and during this time she filled several small sketch books. By 1918 she was back in Edinburgh working at the Royal College of Art.  Royds exhibited regularly at the Society of Scottish Artists, the Society of Artist Printers and the Graver Printers in Colour as well as galleries in Manchester and the rest of the UK. Works of hers are in the British Museum and the V & A. Her work was illustrated in many art books of the day including The Modern Woodcut by First, Fine Prints of the Year 1924 (Malcome Salaman) and The Studio published The Woodcuts of Today at Home and Abroad. In 1984, Garton and Cooke held an exhibition of her work which was illustrated in Catalogue No 28. Even then, one of her woodblock prints had a price tag of £275.  Her travels and domestic life were fertile grounds for the prints she produced. These provided the inspiration for many of her woodblock prints. Tightrope Dancer was her first colour woodblock print produced circa 1911. She went on to produce prints of Indian subjects between about 1920 and 1930 and afterwards produced a series of flower prints. Her daughter Marjorie Barton later compiled a list of 61 coloured prints This is where the reference prefix of MB comes from. Later, several other prints were discovered. In addition she produced many black and white prints, several large oil paintings and countless sketches of her travels and subjects. Mabel Royds personally carved (using Woolworths wooden breadboards because she couldn't afford fruitwood), coloured and printed all the works in her own studio.  She was a great but simple draughtsperson and bold and varied with her colour. She died in Edinburgh 1941. 
  • Type: Drawing
  • Subject: Various
  • Originality: Original
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: India

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