Elizabeth Dickson, née Scorer

(British fl.1930s-1940s)

The Knaresborough Viaduct, c.1940

woodcut in colour on tissue thin paper

signed to the reverse ‘W.Dickson’

17.5 x 11 cm.

(framed 30 x 24 cm.)

in a period black print frame

The Knaresborough Viaduct in North Yorkshire carries the Harrogate line over the River Nidd in Knaresborough. The bold use of brick reds, sky blues, and yellow-greens gives the scene a powerful, almost heraldic quality.

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.