The sword grinder (Jodhpur) - by Mabel Royds

Two boys by grinding stone, woman seated on ground to right. c.1920.

Colour woodcut, in the Japanese manner, predominantly in beige, grey-brown and orange

Mabel Royds was a colour woodcut artist. b. at Little Barford, Bedfordshire, later moved to Liverpool, trained Slade; then in Paris where knew Sickert. Later member of staff of Edinburgh School of Art. Married to E S Lumsden. In India 1914-18, whence much later subject matter.

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