Eileen Soper Prints and Multiples

Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990) Title: "Blowing Bubbles" *Signed by Soper in pencil lower right Year: 1924 (fourth state of four) Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: 240 Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 67, page 117, 141, 157 Framing: Recently framed in a Louis XV style frame with 100% cotton rag matting and 99% UV protective Museum Glass Framed size: 13.25" x 15.13" Sheet size: 7.25" x 9.63" Image size: 4.5" x 7" Condition: In very good condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO. Biography: Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...

Born in Enfield, England in 1905, prominent printmaker, illustrator, painter and author Eileen Alice Soper is best known for her depictions of wildlife and children at play. Nurtured by her artist father George Soper (1870-1942), four of her prints were included in an exhibition in Los Angeles when she was only fourteen and two of those were later hung in the Royal Academy in London. Queen Mary purchased two of Soper's etchings in 1924. Soper was a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters and a founding member of the Society of Wildlife Artists. She created nearly 180 etchings in the early 1930's, some of which were used in a china series for children by Paragon China...

Beetles 67. 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 (sheet 11 3/4 x 9 1/3). A fine impression with plate tone printed on cream lid paper. Signed and annotated 'Edition 75' in pencil. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch...

Beetles 172. 5 x 7 1/4 (sheet 8 1/2 x 12 1/8). Unobtrusive foxing spots; otherwise fine condition. A fine impression with plate tone. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. Eileen Alice Soper (Enfield, Middlesex, 26 March 1905 - 18 March 1990) was an etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. Eileen Soper, born in 1905 was the second daughter of accomplished artist, George Soper...

Beetles 50. 4 1/2 x 5 3/8 (sheet 7 x 9). A fine impression with plate tone. Printed on cream laid paper with full margins. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. Eileen Alice Soper (Enfield, Middlesex, 26 March 1905 - 18 March 1990) was an etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. Eileen Soper, born in 1905 was the second daughter of accomplished artist, George Soper...

An original signed drypoint etching on wove paper by English artist Eileen Alice Soper (1905-1990) titled "Wet Sands", 1921. Hand pencil signed by Soper lower right. Posses...

Playtime. 1922. Etching. Beetles 40. 4 x 7. A fine impression with plate tone. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 10 3/4 x 12 3/4-inch brown wood frame with a silver lip. Eileen Alice Soper (Enfield, Middlesex, 26 March 1905 – 18 March 1990) was an etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. Eileen showed early promise as an artist and two of her etchings were shown in the Royal Academy in London at the age of 15 after she showed three prints at an exhibition organised by the International Society of Printmakers in California. She continued to produce around 180 etchings mostly of children at play into the early 1930s. Her work was popular and well received and shown in the UK and the USA. Today Eileen Soper is best known for her collaboration with Enid Blyton, most notably all of the Famous Five books.She produced a series of etchings mainly of children playing and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould, and wrote and illustrated her own children's book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon...

Follow My Leader. c. 1923. Etching. Beetles 63. 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 . Printed on cream laid paper with full margins. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 10 3/4 x 12 3/4-inch brown wood frame wit...

Tug of War. 1923. Etching. Beetles 61. 4 x 7. A fine impression with plate tone on laid paper. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 15 x 12-inch silver frame with a gold lip and edge. Eileen Alice Soper (Enfield, Middlesex, 26 March 1905 – 18 March 1990) was an etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. Eileen showed early promise as an artist and two of her etchings were shown in the Royal Academy in London at the age of 15 after she showed three prints at an exhibition organised by the International Society of Printmakers in California. She continued to produce around 180 etchings mostly of children at play into the early 1930s. Her work was popular and well received and shown in the UK and the USA. Today Eileen Soper is best known for her collaboration with Enid Blyton, most notably all of the Famous Five books.She produced a series of etchings mainly of children playing and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould, and wrote and illustrated her own children's book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon China...

Blowing Bubbles. 1924. Etching. Beetles 67. 4 1/2 x 7. A fine impression with plate tone. Printed on cream laid paper. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 10...

Tragedy. 1922. Etching. Beetles 31. 6 x 4. A fine impression with plate tone. Signed in pencil. Framed. Housed in a 15 x 12-inch silver frame with a gold lip and edge. Eileen Alice Soper (Enfield, Middlesex, 26 March 1905 – 18 March 1990) was an etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. Eileen showed early promise as an artist and two of her etchings were shown in the Royal Academy in London at the age of 15 after she showed three prints at an exhibition organised by the International Society of Printmakers in California. She continued to produce around 180 etchings mostly of children at play into the early 1930s. Her work was popular and well received and shown in the UK and the USA. Today Eileen Soper is best known for her collaboration with Enid Blyton, most notably all of the Famous Five books.She produced a series of etchings mainly of children playing and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould, and wrote and illustrated her own children's book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon...