Elizabeth Dickson, née Scorer

(British fl.1930s-1940s)

Cottage in a Hilly Landscape, c.1940

woodcut in colour on tissue thin paper

8 x 11 cm.

(framed 20 x 26 cm.)

in a period silvered frame

This small, gem-like colour woodcut of a cottage against a hilly landscape in north Yorkshire, is rendered in striking purples, yellows, and greens, in the Japanese-influenced woodcut tradition.

Elizabeth Scorer Dickson was a Yorkshire printmaker working in the interwar period, with pieces in the Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service. Woodcut print-making in Britain was a practice which offered women in particular a chance to earn their living in the world of book illustration and advertising.