All in black and white

The work of six pioneering women wood engravers and looking again at Jane Austen

A good print is as unlike a drawing as anything can be. Good draughtsmanship is, if it were possible, even more necessary in making a print than in making a drawing. Noel Rooke, Central School of Art, 1926

The image that started it all. The Fen, A Cambridge Landscape, 1935, Gwen Raverat (1885 -1957), 15cm x 17.5cm

As a young teenager, I came acros…