Edwin La Dell Art

Edwin La Dell was born in Coventry, his father was a Sheffield-born bookbinder. After studying at Sheffield School of Art, he was the winner of a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, where the head of printmaking was John Nash. La Dell became head of lithography from 1948 until his death. During the war, he was an official war artist and a camoufleur, but he is probably best known for his lithographs of Oxford and Cambridge that he published himself, together with those he published for the School Prints scheme and Lyons Tea Rooms. La Dell’s works are widely held in the public collections, including the Royal Academy and the Government Art Collection, the latter having a copy of this print.