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Hester Sainsbury is yet another of the lost female artists of England between-the-wars. Successful and acclaimed in the 1920s, she vanishes from view following her marriage to the Vorticist painter, architect, and publisher Frederick Etchells in 1932. Writing in the Print Collector's Quarterly in 1934, Douglas Percy Bliss lamented, "Hester Sainsbury, once so clever with the multiple-tool, has disappeared." Hester Sainsbury, The Prayer of Manasses Wood engraving, 1929 The multiple tool is described by Joanna Selborne in her British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940 as "like a small chisel with a multi-grooved belly which cuts several parallel lines at a time." Hester Sainsbury used one to create the kneeling figure in her wood engraving The Prayer of Manasses, contributed to the Cresset Press Apocrypha in 1929. She was ahead of her time in her use of a multiple graver, anticipating the style of another important female wood engraver of the period, Mary E

Today is polling day for the UK General Election - one of the more interesting and unpredictable elections of my adult life. Only one thing is certain - the House of Commons is going to need revolving doors to cope with all the disillusioned and worn-out MPs losing their seats, and the fresh intake of naive newcomers replacing them. Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant Original etching by Gustave Greux after Claude Oscar Monet, 1904