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Mabel Royds
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Born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire
Born in 1874
Died in 1941

Trained at the Slade, Mabel Royds initially followed a career as an art academic, teaching in Toronto and Edinburgh. While at Edinburgh College of Art she began making woodcuts, the work for which she is now remembered, though her pencil sketches also show consummate skill. Travels with her husband across Europe, India and the Middle East informed her work. Her most celebrated woodcut depictions are of flowers and of exotic scenes from her wanderings.

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