Until very recently, this engraving had been catalogued as depicting Corpus Christi, Oxford and our researchers could not trace the artist.
Then we learned that Dr Michael Haslett had donated it in 2012 and it’s title was All Souls College Oxford c 1920.
We were then able to identify the artist as Mabel Oliver Rae, 1886-1956.
All Souls College Oxford c1920 – an engraving by Mabel Oliver Rae (1886-1956)
Cambridge born and trained at the Slade, she was well known for her etchings of Oxford, Cambridge and British public schools signing her work as M Oliver Rae to disguise her gender because she thought it would sell better.
She worked in other media, creating powerful studies of male models and family portraits in pastel.
As well as watercolours of rural scenes. On marriage, she signed her work MP for Mabel Parker.