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1886–1986
A gifted British etcher, she built a long life around close-looking, careful craft, and scenes of towns, streets, and architecture. Her prints helped make her a notable figure in the early 20th-century etching revival.
Dorothy Woollard was a British artist and etcher born on 12 February 1886 and she lived to the age of 100, dying in Cambridge on 23 October 1986. Sources found for her describe her as Dorothy Edith Griffiths Woollard, and a later biography of her life presents her as an artist whose career stretched from the late Victorian era into the modern age.
She is especially associated with the revival of etching in the early 20th century. Information located during research says she studied at the Etching School of the Royal College of Art in London under Sir Frank Short, and that she produced around 200 plates, many of them topographical views. Her work was collected by major institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, and she exhibited with groups such as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and the Royal West of England Academy.
Although she is not widely known today, Woollard clearly had a serious reputation in her field. A full-length study of her life and work, published in 2008, suggests that her contribution was substantial enough to deserve rediscovery by later readers and art lovers.