George Soper RE (1870 - 1942)
'Along the Lane' - Signed etching - rare
Framed and glazed
Measures: Plate 10 x 16 cms. Frame 26 x 32 cms
George Soper RE (1870 – 1942). With little formal training, Soper worked professionally as an illustrator and was an accomplished artist and printmaker. Although elected member of the Royal Society of Painter- Engravers in 1920, his work remained largely unknown during his lifetime. His vision was to recognise that the traditional skills and way of life of manual workers on both land and sea was disappearing forever and he set to record this for posterity. His work captures not only the beauty, but also, the sheer hard work and physicality of working the land before mechanisation all but destroyed the traditional skills and jobs forever.
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