This is a much sought-after colour woodcut by Mabel Royds.
It is entitled The Snake Charmer and is lightly signed in pencil by the artist, lower right margin: M.A. Royds. It dates to around 1920.
This print related to Royds travels to India. The print shows an Indian Snake Charmer sitting crossed legged on the ground. He has a pot in the ground from which little snakes appear. He has two snakes wrapped around his arm - and a large blue python crawls along the ground in front of him. A hooded python is seen to the left margin. I love all the exotic colours that Royds has used in this image.
It is in excellent condition and comes from my own collection. I have owned it for the last 20 years (sadly run out of wall space!).
Dimensions: Image size is 13 x 17.5 cm. The frame size is 35 x 42 cm.
It is in good condition with no issues - and has a white window mount and thick oak frame. It is all ready just to hang on your wall.
Postage in the UK with be £10 tracked and signed for postage - this will be applied at checkout.
BIOGRAPHY: Mabel Royds was born in Bedfordshire. She studied art study at the progressive Slade School in London. After spells in Paris and Toronto from 1900, she returned to Britain in 1911 to teach at the Edinburgh College of Art.
Her colleagues included the Scottish Colourists J.D.Fergusson and S.J. Peploe and the etcher E.S. Lumsden.
Royds married Lumsden in 1913. For their honeymoon, they travelled to Bombay. They returned to India the following year and in 1916 the two of them journeyed through the Himalayas, painting as they went. Throughout the 1920s her prints, nearly always woodcuts, were often of Indian subjects based on images from her travels. Unable to afford pear woodblocks for her woodcuts, she famously made them instead from six penny breadboards that she bought from Woolworths.
Royds died in Edinburgh in 1941.