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Henry Sargant Storer (1791-1837)
A view of Cambridge from Castle Hill c.1824
Watercolour 46x74.5cm Original watercolour for engraving published in c. 1824. We have a copy of the engraving available, please ask to see it! Provenance: from the family of the artist. A very large and very fine view of Cambridge from Castle Hill. New Court of St John's College shines brightly, being in the course of construction - it was finished in 1831. A later panorama of Cambridge in 1838 shows Jesus Green lock in the course of construction. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Louis Osman (1914-1996) Catalogue for May 1974 Exhibition at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
29.6x21.3cm (A4-sized) 24 pages plus card covers Staple bound Provenance: from the artist's estate Louis Osman (30 January 1914 - 11 April 1996) was an architect, artist, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. Few people matched his creations as a goldsmith, and consequently he was chosen to make the crown for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969. Many of his other works are in public collections in the UK and worldwide. After Hele's school in Exeter he studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture - part of University College London - from 1931. Also attending the Slade, he left the Bartlett being awarded the top first, which brings with it the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA. Subsequently he trained with Sir Albert Richardson (who lived in a large Georgian house in Northamptonshire in which he refused to have electric light; his wife was endlessly patient with his eccentricities). Serving during the Second World War as a Major in the Intelligence Corps, he was a specialist in Air Photography and served on the Beach Reconnaissance Committee prior to the June 1944 Normandy 'D-Day' landings. Following the war he was busy as an architect, works including for Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely and Lichfield Cathedrals. Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his own folly, the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire - which was given to the National Trust in 1981 when Osman was not able to keep the tenancy any longer. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1974 he created the exhibition celebrated by this lavishly illustrated catalogue. His crown for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales was on display, together with many other items of his own creation, and also by other silversmiths such as Malcolm Green, Philip Noaks and Stephen Nunn, also acknowledging the work of Desmond Clenn-Murphy, Peter Musgrove and Christopher Philipson in his own works. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled casket that holds the copy of the Magna Carta on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. As new, staple bound and staples - as always - showing slight sign of rust to the inside -
after Samuel Buck (1696 - 1779) and Nathaniel Buck (active 1724 - 1759)
The South View of Bindon Abbey, in the County of Dorset (1733)
Engraving 20 x 37 cm An engraved view of Bindon Abbey, a Cistercian monastery on the River Frome in Dorset. The monastery was founded in 1149 by William de Glastonia on the site since known as Little Bindon near Bindon Hill. In 1172 the monastery moved to a site near Wool, and was supported by the house of Plantagenet. The abbey was scheduled for Dissolution in 1536, and finally dissolved in 1539. Only ruins remain. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were brothers and notable 18th century architectural artists, best known for their depictions of ancient castles and monasteries entitled 'Buck's Antiquities' and those of townscapes of England and Wales, ''Sea-Ports and Capital Towns''. Little is known about the brothers' lives. Samuel was born in Yorkshire and died in penury in London in 1779, and was buried in the churchyard of St Clement Danes. Nathaniel pre-deceased him, dying between 1759 and 1774. Condition: generally good; some age toning; mounted to board; sheet trimmed outside platemark. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Vanity Fair Spy Magazine President of St john's College Oxford
1 April 1893 Lithograph If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Margaret Macadam (1902-1991)
Spring: Lady with an Afghan Hound
Signed Mixed media c.1930 28x23cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robert Morden (1650-1703) Nottingham Shire (or Nottinghamshire)
Engraving with recent hand colouring 34x42cm First published in 1695 for Camden's Britannica (1695-1772) and reprinted several times during the succeeding century. -
Samuel & Nathaniel Buck
Byland Abbey, Yorkshire
Engraving 37x19cm, c. 1770 "Byland Abbey is an interesting ruin about five miles from Helmsley. It was a fine specimen of ecclesiastical architecture, founded by the monks of Furness, who were driven from their establishment in Lancashire during an incursion of the Scots. When the abbey was dissolved in 1540 its revenues amounted to 238l. 9s. 4d." (Source: The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 25 June 1836.) -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
A Modernist Church
Pencil 29 x 43 cm A design for an octagonal church in the modernist mid-century style. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Thomas Kitchin (1719 - 1784)
Map of Oxfordshire (1764)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 72 x 54 cm This decorative map of Oxfordshire features a cartouche with three concentrating scholars and various educational trappings like rolls of parchment. The cartouche in the upper right corner dedicates the map to Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, whose family seat of Blenheim Palace is just outside the city of Oxford. The map also sports a list of the University of Oxford's colleges, its rectories and vicarages, and a paragraph on the Earls of Oxford. Thomas Kitchin was an English engraver and cartographer. He was born in London and was apprenticed to the map engraver Emanuel Bowen in 1732. He produced John Elphinstone's map of Scotland (1746), the Geographia Scotiae (1749), and The Small English Atlas (1749) with Thomas Jefferys. Kitchen worked for the London Magazine and for the King; there is also some debate as to whether he passed off other cartographers' work as his own. Condition: generally very good; central fold as issued, another fold to middle of top half, three tiny losses (a millimetre or two) just outside plate mark to left side. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other decorative maps. -
Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Garden
Pencil drawing 1862 12 x 18.5cm approx. Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and recorded the places he visited. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Kiosk on the Bosphorus
Pencil drawing Dated 4 April 1866 13 x 19.5cm approx. Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and recorded the places he visited. Here he is in Turkey, recording a Kiosk - or Köşkü - on the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water in northwestern Turkey that links the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Isola Pescatori, Italy
1862 Pencil drawing Sheet 12 x 16.5cm Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and recorded the places he visited. Here, visiting the Lago Maggiore in northern Italy he depicts the Isola Pescatori (the fishermen's island) - or Isola Superiore. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Inscribed 'Schlossgarten - Juli 1861/ Baden Baden'
Pencil Drawing Sheet 11 x 18.5cm Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and recorded the places he visited. Here he records what is thought to be the gardens of the Neues Schloss in Baden Baden, the former residence of the Margraves of Baden. Baden Baden is an old spa town - with two thermal baths - on the edge of the Black Forest in the south west of Germany. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Christopher Wyndham Hughes (1881-1961) Italian Church Entrance
Pencil drawing c.1930s 35 x 23cm Born in St Albans, in Hertfordshire UK, Hughes was a painter, illustrator, printmaker and teacher. He served in the First World War in the 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment being awarded a Military Cross in the 1917 New Years Honours List and attaining the rank of Colonel. Subsequently he taught art at Marlborough College. He was taught painting by his father, Wyndham Hughes, who was an expert in stained glass and ecclesiastical decoration. This is from a series of drawing we have of an Italian trip, to see some others, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Silhouette of Lady II (circa 1870)
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Prior to photography, silhouettes were the easiest way of recording a person's appearance. This set might record the group present at a country house party, a wedding, or other similar convivial occasion. Condition: generally good; some staining to edges. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes.
