raverat was one of the very first wood engravers recognised as modern. she went to the slade school in 1908, but stood outside the groups growing up at the time, the group that gathered around eric gill at ditchling and the group that grew up at the central school of arts and crafts around noel rooke. she was influenced by the impressionists and post-impressionists and developed her own painterly style of engraving. there was some similarity between her early engravings and those of gill, and she did know gill, but the similarity was based mostly on her black line style at the time, influenced by lucien pissarro, and the semi-religious themes that she then chose.