Shambles Restaurant is a tour de force of wood engraving, a technique associated closely with book illustration. Hatton studied wood engraving during her time in London at the city’s Central School of Arts and Crafts, an institution steeped in the ideals of the English Arts and Crafts movement and the philosophies of William Morris and John Ruskin. She made the print under the direction of Noel Rooke, an influential teacher at the school. Wood engraving is a relief process in which the design is engraved with a burin on the end grain of a block of hardwood, which allows for very fine and exacting line work. Hatton’s handling of the technique is breathtaking, rendering space, light, and material with an arabesque of intricate, finely engraved white lines. In 1935 the jury of the prestigious Pennell Fund selected Hatton’s print as one of that year’s acquisitions for the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.