DOI Heft:
No. 331 (October 1920)
DOI Artikel:Allhusen, E. L.: Anders Zorn: Some personal recollections
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The etchings and dry-points of George Soper
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0111
THE ETCHINGS AND DRY-POINTS OF GEORGE SOPER, R.E.
countable. It is entirely due to his influence
that the picturesque costumes of the
peasantry have never been discarded, and
it is to be hoped that his memory may be
kept alive by their retention. a 0
He had been failing in health for some
weeks, but the illness of which he died
was sudden. Dr. Helling was called, and
found that it was too late. An operation
was performed as a last chance—but he
sank under it. 0 0 0 a 0
He was sensible almost till the last,
but at 1 a.m. unconsciousness supervened
and his hands began to go through the
motions of painting. 000
He spoke of colours, and of Liten, his
little dog, and quietly passed away. As
an artist he is a loss to the world ; but
as a man his death will leave an unfillable
void in the heart of every Dalecarlian. 0
E. L. Allhusen.
THE ETCHINGS AND DRY-
POINTS OF GEORGE SOPER, R.E.
BY MALCOLM C. SALAMAN. 0
MR. GEORGE SOPER has been etch-
ing barely three years, yet already he
has achieved plates, such as South Down
Shepherd]'and Timber Hauling, No. 2, re-
produced in the second and third Folios of
The Charm of the Etcher's Art, which
have won him a distinctive place among the
contemporary British etchers who count
with discriminating collectors. And it is no
easy thing for a practised book-illustrator,
who has been habitually adapting his art to
picture-making at the suggestion or dicta-
tion of authors and publishers, to emanci-
pate his artistic outlook and embark on the
adventure of a pictorial free lance, choosing
at will the motive that appeals for the spon-
taneous utterance of the instinctive etcher.
96
"BURNING TWITCH." ETCHING
BY GEORGE SOPER, R.E.
(By permission of Mr. H. C. Dickins)
countable. It is entirely due to his influence
that the picturesque costumes of the
peasantry have never been discarded, and
it is to be hoped that his memory may be
kept alive by their retention. a 0
He had been failing in health for some
weeks, but the illness of which he died
was sudden. Dr. Helling was called, and
found that it was too late. An operation
was performed as a last chance—but he
sank under it. 0 0 0 a 0
He was sensible almost till the last,
but at 1 a.m. unconsciousness supervened
and his hands began to go through the
motions of painting. 000
He spoke of colours, and of Liten, his
little dog, and quietly passed away. As
an artist he is a loss to the world ; but
as a man his death will leave an unfillable
void in the heart of every Dalecarlian. 0
E. L. Allhusen.
THE ETCHINGS AND DRY-
POINTS OF GEORGE SOPER, R.E.
BY MALCOLM C. SALAMAN. 0
MR. GEORGE SOPER has been etch-
ing barely three years, yet already he
has achieved plates, such as South Down
Shepherd]'and Timber Hauling, No. 2, re-
produced in the second and third Folios of
The Charm of the Etcher's Art, which
have won him a distinctive place among the
contemporary British etchers who count
with discriminating collectors. And it is no
easy thing for a practised book-illustrator,
who has been habitually adapting his art to
picture-making at the suggestion or dicta-
tion of authors and publishers, to emanci-
pate his artistic outlook and embark on the
adventure of a pictorial free lance, choosing
at will the motive that appeals for the spon-
taneous utterance of the instinctive etcher.
96
"BURNING TWITCH." ETCHING
BY GEORGE SOPER, R.E.
(By permission of Mr. H. C. Dickins)