Lettice Sandford (1902–1993) was a draftsman, wood-engraver and watercolourist. Studied at the Chelsea School of Art. She was taught to engrave on wood by Robert Day, and etching by Graham Sutherland. She met the printer Christopher Sandford, and they were married in 1929. Together they ran the Boar’s Head Press. In style at this time she was hugely influence by Blair Hughes-Stanton. In 1933 Christopher Sandford bought the Golden Cockerel Press from Robert Gibbings, and maintained the employment of the finest engravers – Gibbings himself, Eric Gill, Hughes-Stanton, Eric Ravilious, John Buckland Wright and, his wife. Lettice. Her simple sensuous lines were now hugely influenced by Eric Gill and Matisse.