• S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)

    Heraldic Design

      Watercolour 51 x43 cm Signed lower right. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: 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.
  • 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.
  • S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)

    Designs for a Stained Glass Window

      Watercolour 71 x 56 cm Signed lower right. A beautiful stained glass window design in the medievalist Arts and Crafts style popularised by William Morris in the 1890s. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: 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.
  • S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)

    Designs for an Interlacing Motif (1949)

      Watercolour 37 x 52 cm Dated 26-2-1949 and signed. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: 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.
  • Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)

    Flowers

      Pen and ink 15 x 23 cm Signed 'G Spink' lower right. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. 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.
  • Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)

    Sailing ship

      Pencil 31 x 38 cm A stormy sea and the wind in her sails. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. 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.
  • Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)

    Motorcyclist

      Pencil on tracing paper 20 x 32 cm Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. 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.
  • Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)

    Stagecoach

      Pencil 32 x 53 cm Signed 'Spink' lower right. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. 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.
  • H. Fluiss

    Cotherstone with stud groom "Wilson" (1862)

      Watercolour 30 x 39 cm A late-nineteenth century watercolour depicting Cotherstone, the British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from September 1841 to July 1843, he ran eleven times and won eight races. Provenance: Christie's South Kensington (2002). Condition: generally very good; couple of faint spots to sky. Frame in "country house" condition. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • 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.
  • Leslie Macdonald "Max" Gill (1884 - 1947)

    A Map of the Colne Valley Cloth District (1946)

      Engraving with later hand-colouring 32 x 48 cm Signed in the plate and dated 1946. Produced for Huddersfield and District Woollen Export Group. Gill's vibrant and detailed map depicts the Colne Valley District. The Colne Valley was a loom-weaving area which played a significant role in the development of the Industrial Revolution when water-powered textile mills were brought in. Born in Brighton, Max Gill was the second son in a family of thirteen children; his elder brother was Eric Gill, the typographer and sculptor. Both Gills exhibited significant talent at a young age. Max Gill’s first map was made for a school map-drawing project following which he entered maps into competitions in boys’ magazines. In 1903 he moved to London as assistant to the ecclesiastical architects Sir Charles Nicholson and Hubert Corlette. By 1908 he had started his own architectural practice, but in 1909 Sir Edwin Lutyens commissioned Gill to paint a “wind dial” map for Nashdom, a large house in Buckinghamshire. The wind dial was set over the fireplace and attached to a weather vane on the roof, allowing the occupant to know the direction of the wind from the comfort of the house. He produced seven further wind dials including for Lutyens’s Lindisfarne Castle and for the Allhusen Room at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although Gill continued to practice as an architect, Frank Pick commissioned him to create seven pictorial maps for the Underground, the first being the famous 1913 ‘Wonderground Map of London Town.’ In 1917 he joined the Imperial War Graves Commission’s headstone design committee, designing the typeface and regimental badges. Gill’s memorials for the fallen in the First World War include for Balliol and Worcester Colleges and Christ Church in Oxford. During the 1920s and 30s Gill undertook many commercial commissions for advertising materials. The Empire Marketing Board and Shell-Mex as well as further maps for the Underground. He designed in 1922 the first diagrammatic map of the Underground which provided the foundation for Beck’s more famous map. By the 1930s his major works were murals. Those of the Arctic and Antarctic on the ceilings of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge are beautiful, but the most impressive is the map of the North Atlantic in the first-class dining room of the Queen Mary (maiden voyage: 1936, now moored at Long Beach, California). During the Second World War he created a series of propaganda posters for the Ministry of Information. Condition: very good. In new hand-finished frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other decorative maps.
  • Johannes 'Joan' Blaeu (1596 - 1673)

    Oxonium Comitatus, Vulgo Oxfordshire (1662)

      Engraving with later hand-colouring 38 x 50 cm A decorative map of Oxfordshire by the celebrated Dutch mapmaker and artist Joan Blaeu, (son of the cartographer Willem Blaeu). Two Oxford scholars flanks the cartouche which declares the map to be of Oxonium (that is, Oxfordshire), and the design also features the arms of the British Royal Family, King Alfred, and the University of Oxford. Sixteen colleges crests border the map. Blaeu moved to Amsterdam in 1920 to join the family firm of mapmakers. In 1635, the business published the Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus in two volumes - the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century, and the venture for which the Blaeu were most famed. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638; Joan became the official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company, as his father had been before him. Condition: mostly very good; area of toning to top left where coloured to reverse. Good oak frame. Framed with reverse visible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other antique maps.
  • Lucas Vorsterman (1595 - 1675) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

    The Flight into Egypt (1620)

      Engraving 30 x 45 cm Rare. We have only been able to trace one copy at auction, 2019, Izegem, Belgium. A copy of this print is held by the British Museum (R,3.50). Mary, Joseph, and the infant Christ escape into Egypt on a donkey. Lucas Vorsterman was a Baroque engraver. He worked with the artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, as well as for patrons such as Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel and Charles I of England. Condition: mounted to old paper; trimmed to platemarks; two areas of repair in region of Mary's left hand and Christ's right knee (see photo). In old ebonised frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Brendan Neiland (b. 1941) R.A. (Expelled)

    Lady Margaret Hall

      Screenprint 46 x 27 cm Signed, titled, and numbered 42/175 in pencil. A screenprint of the cupola atop Lady Margaret Hall's Talbot Building. Reflected architecture is one of Neiland’s most recurring themes. Neiland's work is widely exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide including, in Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery London, The Collections of the British Council, and the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is represented by the Redfern Gallery and has had numerous shows internationally, including at the Galerie Belvedere in Singapore, who represent him in Singapore and the Far East. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Lady Margaret Hall.
  • Elizabeth Byrne (1777 - 1849) after Joseph Farington RA (1747 - 1821)

    North View of Whitehaven, Cumbria

      Hand-coloured engraving 27.5 x 56.5 cm A view of the cliffs and port of Whitehaven in Cumbria. Joseph Farington RA was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist. He drew a north and south view of Whitehaven, which were engraved by Elizabeth Byrne in the early 19th century. Byrne was a London-born etcher and landscape painter, who was taught by her father, the etcher William Byrne. She and her father contributed etchings to the 'Magna Britannia' and 'Britannia depicta', books illustrating the most interesting views in various English counties, published by Samuel Lysons in the late 1810s. Condition: good. Two folds and some light age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Michel Dureil (1929 - 2011)

    La Table du Jardin / Garden Table with a Black Cat

     

    Oil on canvas 35 x 44 cm A black cat stretches beside a typical French table, observed by bright orange flowers. Orange cushions and an orange sun-umbrella complete the scene. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Joseph Collyer (1748 - 1827) after Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801)

    The Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin

      Monochrome print 28 x 31 cm A monochrome print depicting Dublin regiments of the Irish Volunteers meeting on College Green. Francis Wheatley depicted the scene in oils in 1779, and Joseph Collyer engraved it in 1781. Wheatley went to Dublin in 1779 and established himself there as a portrait-painter; this view of the Dublin Volunteers became the basis for a best-selling print bought by numerous Irish Patriots. Volunteers were local Irish militias raised by community initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War and the government failed to organise its own militia. Taking advantage of Britain's preoccupation with its rebelling American colonies, the Volunteers were able to pressure Westminster into conceding legislative independence to the Dublin parliament. Francis Wheatley was an English portrait and landscape painter who studied at the Royal Academy, and won several prizes from the Society of Arts. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician in the following year. Joseph Collyer was a British engraver. In 1770 where he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time; he was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy, and appointed portrait engraver to Queen Charlotte in 1786. Condition: fair. Some browning and staining. In handsome rosewood frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Coronation Arrangements - Map of London (1953)

      Lithograph 45 x 60 cm (unfolded) Published by London Transport for the Coronation of Elizabeth II, this delightfully-coloured map illustrates the route taken by the Queen when she was crowned in 1953. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Coronation Arrangements - Map of London (1937)

      Lithograph 45 x 60 cm (unfolded) Published by London Transport for the Coronation of George VI, this map illustrates the route the King took in 1936. And best of all, it's just (almost!) as useful in today's London. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Claude Muncaster (1903 - 1974)

    Stromness, Orkney

      Pencil drawing 23 x 53 cm A drawing of Stromness, Orkney, with two figures in the foreground. The buildings seem tiny in comparison to the huge cliffs overlooking the town. Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS ROI RBA SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. He was born Grahame Hall (his father was the Royal Academician Oliver Hall, who taught his son to paint from an early age) but adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922, hoping to strike out on his own and dissociate his career from that of his father. His career as a landscape painter began when he was fifteen; he spent the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook by boat. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in ‘Rolling Round the Horn’, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, his aim was to be able to ‘paint ships and the sea with greater authority’. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founder member, and later President, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. When the Second World War broke out, Muncaster joined the Royal Naval Reserves, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships. He also worked as an official war artist. In ‘Still Morning at Aden’ (1944) he depicts Allied warships in this safe anchorage in the Middle East; the back is stamped with Admiralty approval. In 1946-7 he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolours of the royal residences (some of which are available below); the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s ‘unerring instinct for a subject’, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and of Bradford. His career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum. He was a frequent guest at Sandringham for the rest of his life. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist.
  • Silhouette (circa 1870)

    Miss Chapman

    Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm One of the daughters of David Barclay Chapman - either Ella Maria or Eugenia Susannah. His other daughter, Adeline Mary, appears in another silhouette from this particular set. David Barclay Chapman was a partner in the bank which in 1896 became the Limited Company Barclay & Co, known today as Barclay's. 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 very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Silhouette (circa 1870)

    Lennox

    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 very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Silhouette (circa 1870)

    Miss Dodo Guinness

    Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Adelaide Maud Guinness, nicknamed 'Dodo', was descended from the banking line of Guinnesses. Her father was the barrister and MP Richard Samuel Guinness. Dodo married Edward Cecil Guinness, the 1st Earl of Iveagh and her third cousin, in 1873. Edward's father had died in 1868, after which Edward inherited a share of the famous Guinness brewery. The Guinness family seat is Elveden Hall in Suffolk. 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 upper edge. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Silhouette (circa 1870)

    The Hon Mrs F Byron

    Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Likely Mary Jane Wescomb, the daughter of the daughter of Reverend William Wescomb. She married the Hon Frederick Byron in 1851; Byron was a cricketer educated at Westminster and Balliol College, Oxford, and became a fellow at All Souls College in 1843. The couple moved in to Langford Grove together after their marriage. 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 very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Sutton Nichols (1668 - 1729)

    Map of Cambridgeshire

      Engraving 43 x 36 cm Signed in plate lower left. A beautifully coloured 18th century map engraving of Cambridgeshire. The map was produced by Robert Morden for publication in Edward Gibson's 1695 translation of William Camden's Britannia, a topographical and historical survey of Great Britain and Ireland produced to "restore antiquity to Britaine, and Britain to his antiquity" - a most noble aim. William Camden (1551 - 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as the author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the Queen Elizabeth I's reign. Sutton Nicholls was a draughtsman and engraver best known for his panoramic views of the cities of London and Westminster. Almost all of his engravings were commissioned by publishers. Nicholls specialised in topographical and architectural designs; he also produced many maps, notably illustrating John Strype’s edition of John Stowe’s ‘Survey of London’ in 1720. Condition: good. Mounted to board. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Pieter van den Keere (1571 - circa 1646) after John Speed (1551 or 1552 - 1629)

    Map of Cambridgeshire (1627)

      Engraving 8 x 12 cm A beautifully coloured map of Cambridgeshire, with an antique description of the county to the reverse. The map, along with many others, was published in Speed's atlas, 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', first published in 1611. This particular miniature edition of the 'Theatre' was published in miniature by George Humble in 1627, entitled 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume. Done by John Speed.’ Speed's original map was likely engraved for this edition by Peter van den Keere. van den Keere's maps soon came to be known as "Miniature Speeds". John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His Biblical genealogies were also formally associated with the first edition of the King James Bible. He is among the most famous of English mapmakers. George Humble (1572 - 1640) was an English publisher, known for his publication of John Speed's 'The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine,' the first comprehensive atlas depicting the British Isles, and his later 'A prospect of the most famous parts of the World,' the first English world atlas. Pieter van den Keere was a Flemish engraver, publisher, and globe maker who worked in England and the Dutch Republic. Condition: generally very good; some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • John Dower (1825 - 1901)

    Map of Berkshire from an actual survey made in the years 1822 & 1823

      Engraving 57 x 69 cm A large antique engraved map of Berkshire. Condition: good; some light staining. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Chapel Interior (circa 1800)

      Engraving 49 x 40 cm An engraving of a magnificent chapel interior. Two men tour the chapel, one gesticulating towards the spectacular design of the chancel window. Condition: good. Some gentle discolouration; in faux burr-maple frame. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Arabesques and caricatures

      Engraving 24.5 x 36 cm Condition: good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • James Redaway (1797 - 1858)

    Eton from the Locks

      Hand-coloured engraving 27 x 28 cm Redaway's view of Eton College, seen from the locks on the River Thames. James Redaway was a nineteenth-century engraver, principally of landscapes and architectural subjects. Condition: some staining to lower half of print. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594)

    Map of the North of Scotland (1683)

      Engraving with later hand colouring 35 x 45 cm A fantastically characterful and detailed map engraving of the North of Scotland from 1683. The highly detailed and beautifully coloured map is inscribed to the reverse with a description of the parts of Scotland illustrated, called the ''Troisieme Table d''Escosse''. The map comes from the 1683 French edition of Gerardus Mercator''s Atlas Major, which was first published in 1585. Gerardus Mercator was the Flemish father of mapmaking. He was a skilled geographer, cosmographer and cartographer and is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines - an innovation that is still employed in today''s nautical charts. Mercator was a highly influential pioneer in the history of cartography and is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He is also widely considered the most notable figure of the school. In his own day, he was a notable maker of globes and scientific instruments. In addition, he had interests in theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and geomagnetism. He was also an accomplished engraver and calligrapher. Unlike other great scholars of the age, he travelled little and his knowledge of geography came from his library of over a thousand books and maps, from his visitors and from his vast correspondence (in six languages) with other scholars, statesmen, travellers, merchants and seamen. Mercator''s early maps were in large formats suitable for wall mounting but in the second half of his life, he produced over 100 new regional maps in a smaller format suitable for binding into his Atlas of 1595. This was the first appearance of the word Atlas in reference to a book of maps. However, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise (Cosmologia) on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of the Titan Atlas, "King of Mauretania", whom he considered to be the first great geographer. Mercator wrote on geography, philosophy, chronology and theology. All of the wall maps were engraved with copious text on the region concerned. As an example, the famous world map of 1569 is inscribed with over five thousand words in fifteen legends. Condition: a little spotting, primarily to margins. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • J Black (early 19th century) after Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854)

    East End of South Aisle, Westminster Abbey (1812)

      Hand-coloured aquatint 31 x 24 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). An engraving of the East End of Westminster Abbey's south aisle. Mackenzie's drawing was engraved by Black and published by Ackermann in his 1812 "History of Westminster Abbey". Charles II, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II and her husband King William III, and Mary, Queen of Scots are all buried in the south aisle. The Abbey is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and since Edward the Confessor, a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey. Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the abbey since 1100. According to a tradition first reported circa 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorney Island) in the seventh century, in the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854) was a British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1804, and contributed eleven drawings between that year and 1828. He contributed to the Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibitions from 1813, becoming an associate in 1822, and a full member the following year. From 30 November 1831 till his death he was treasurer to the society. In later life Mackenzie was no longer commissioned to illustrate books. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: good. Some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • J Black (early 19th century) after Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854)

    East Side of St Erasmus' Chapel, Westminster Abbey (1812)

      Hand-coloured aquatint 28 x 19 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). An engraving of the east side of the chapel of St Erasmus in Westminster Abbey. Mackenzie's drawing was engraved by Black and published by Ackermann in his 1812 "History of Westminster Abbey". The chapel was built in the late 15th century by order of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville. It would have been used to worship St Erasmus, also known as St Elmo (a Christian saint and martyr venerated as the patron saint of sailors and abdominal pain). The Abbey is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and since Edward the Confessor, a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey. Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the abbey since 1100. According to a tradition first reported circa 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorney Island) in the seventh century, in the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854) was a British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1804, and contributed eleven drawings between that year and 1828. He contributed to the Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibitions from 1813, becoming an associate in 1822, and a full member the following year. From 30 November 1831 till his death he was treasurer to the society. In later life Mackenzie was no longer commissioned to illustrate books. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: good. Some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • J Black (early 19th century) after Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854)

    Screen Over the Chantry of Henry V, Westminster Abbey (1812)

      Hand-coloured aquatint 26 x 31 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). An engraving of the gothic screen of the elaborately carved chantry chapel dedicated to Henry V, and below which lies his tomb, in Westminster Abbey. Mackenzie's drawing was engraved by Black and published by Ackermann in his 1812 "History of Westminster Abbey". The Abbey is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom''s most notable religious buildings and since Edward the Confessor, a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey. Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the abbey since 1100. According to a tradition first reported circa 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorney Island) in the seventh century, in the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854) was a British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1804, and contributed eleven drawings between that year and 1828. He contributed to the Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibitions from 1813, becoming an associate in 1822, and a full member the following year. From 30 November 1831 till his death he was treasurer to the society. In later life Mackenzie was no longer commissioned to illustrate books. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: good. Some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Attributed to Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855)

    Dinan Tour de l’Horloge (Dinan Clock Tower)

      Watercolour 28 x 21 cm A spirited watercolour of Dinan, Brittany. Dinan's famous clock tower looks over a French street scene: men, women, and children weave through the town's half-timbered houses, shops, and ateliers. The characterful mediaeval stonework and architecture of the town are paramount, and the artist adds a bright blue hue to his depiction of Dinan's roofs. Dinan is a walled medieval Breton town and commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of northwestern France. Enclosed by nearly three kilometres of ramparts, the town and its 14th-century castle proudly overlook the Rance river. Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter famous for his watercolour landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Watercolour Society (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 the Society's President. In 1824 he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon, alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable. Examples of his work are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and other major museums in Britain. Condition: good. Some spotting to sky; handsomely framed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • John Chessell Buckler (1793 - 1894)

    Horham Hall, Essex (1830)

      Watercolour 25 x 34 cm Signed and dated lower right; titled below. Horham Hall was built in Thaxted, Essex by Sir John Cutte in the early sixteenth century. The original hall was a timber-framed moated manor house built circa 1470, but it was largely demolished by Cutte, who built the present house between 1510 and 1515. Cutte was under-treasurer in the households of Henry VII and Henry VIII. The mansion was built in brick in two storeys in a quadrilateral layout with a gatehouse and incorporated some elements of the former building. The house was visited three times by Elizabeth I as the guest of Sir John Cutte. It is believed that the Tower was built for her to watch the local hunt. It was while staying at Horham in 1578 that the Queen received the envoy of the Duke of Alençon proposing marriage. John Chessell Buckler was a British architect, the eldest son of the architect John Buckler. His work included restorations of country houses and at the University of Oxford. Buckler received art lessons from the painter Francis Nicholson. He began working for his father's architectural practice in 1810, and ran it from 1830 onwards with his younger brother George. They worked in partnership until 1842. Buckler did a lot of work in Oxford, carrying out repairs and additions to St. Mary's Church, and Oriel, Brasenose, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges. He also restored Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, and Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, and designed Dunston Hall, Norfolk, and Butleigh Court in Somerset. In 1836 he came second, behind Charles Barry, in the competition to rebuild the Palace of Westminster following its destruction by fire. Buckler's writings included the text accompanying his father's engravings of Views of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales (1822). In 1823 he published 'Observations on the Original Architecture of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford', in which he expressed his hostility towards changes in the quadrangle of Magdalen College. Some of his later writings, such as 'A History of the Architecture of the Abbey Church of St Alban' (1847), were written in collaboration with his own son, Charles Alban Buckler. He wrote a further polemical work, 'A Description And Defense Of The Restorations Of The Exterior Of Lincoln Cathedral' (1866), a scathing response to accusations that, in capacity as honorary architect to Lincoln Cathedral, he had overseen a damaging restoration involving the 'scraping' of the cathedral fabric. He died at the grand old age of 100 in 1894. Condition: good. Some spots to the sky, as visible in photograph. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Richard Westmacott (1775 - 1856)

    Edinburgh Castle (1800)

      Watercolour 29 x 41 cm A watercolour depicting Edinburgh Castle. A Georgian couple gaze up at the immensity of Castle Rock, and the 11th-century fortress perched upon it. Richard Westmacott was British artist who primarily worked as a sculptor. Westmacott studied with his father, also named Richard Westmacott, at his studio in Mount Street, off Grosvenor Square in London, before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova. Upon his return to London in 1797, he established his own studio. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1839 and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1805, and a full academician in 1811. Condition: very good; handsomely framed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • J Black (early 19th century) after Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854)

    The Choir, Westminster Abbey (1812)

      Hand-coloured aquatint 28 x 19 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). An engraving of the vast and soaring interior of Westminster Abbey. Mackenzie's drawing was engraved by Black and published by Ackermann in his 1812 "History of Westminster Abbey". The Abbey is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and since Edward the Confessor, a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey. Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the abbey since 1100. According to a tradition first reported circa 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorney Island) in the seventh century, in the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854) was a British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1804, and contributed eleven drawings between that year and 1828. He contributed to the Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibitions from 1813, becoming an associate in 1822, and a full member the following year. From 30 November 1831 till his death he was treasurer to the society. In later life Mackenzie was no longer commissioned to illustrate books. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: good. Some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)

    Stonehenge (1727)

      Engraving 12 x 16 cm Two eighteenth-century views of the pagan and mystical Stonehenge, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. Pieter van der Aa of Leiden was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He is noted for the many engravings he produced after David Loggan's series of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and costumes. In 1727 Van Der Aa illustrated "Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne & de L'Irelande" by James Beeverell, the book in which this engraving appears. Condition: a good impression. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • H. Fluiss

    Charles Payne, Huntsman to the Pytchley Hounds on Redtape with the hound Trueman (1862)

      Watercolour with body colour 36 x 43 cm A mid-nineteenth century watercolour depicting Charles Payne (1884–1967), huntsman to the Pytchley. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Darton and Harvey (publisher)

    Map of London, Southwark, and parts adjacent (1800)

      Engraving 42 x 56 cm Condition: generally very good; backed to linen with some evidence of use.
  • William Verner Longe (1857-1924)

    Cottenham, December 1904

    Watercolour 29 x 45 cm Signed and inscribed 'Red Coat Race, "Ewe Lamb ii" wins from "Why Not"'. A lively racing scene by William Verner Longe, and English artist noted for his scenes of racing, hunting, and other equestrian activities. He was educated at the Ipswich School of Arts and then the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Condition: generally very good; original frame with antique glass. Some discolouration to margins.
  • J. Lewis (fl. 1801-1808)

    Eton College from the River

    Oil on canvas 41 x 62 cm Signed lower left. While not a prolific artist, Lewis was noted for his views of the Thames - this view of Eton College is remarkable for its depiction of the river and wider environs of the school, as well as its architecture. Two snowy swans and boater-clad boys complete the view from the other sides of the Thames. Condition: very good.
  • Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) after Thomas Williamson (1758-1817)

    Exhibition of a Battle between a Buffalo & a Tiger' from Oriental Field Sports (1819)

      Hand-coloured aquatint 35 x 47 cm Captain Thomas Williamson served in a British regiment in Bengal, India. He was known as a keen sportsman and, after returning to England, his notable interest in contemporary Indian sports attracted the attention of the publisher Edward Orme. Orme was a British engraver, painter and publisher of illustrated books, and in 1805 he commissioned Williamson to produce a work focused on Oriental sports and animals. The book took two years to complete, with the painter Samuel Howitt commissioned to produce watercolours based on original sketches by Williamson, most of which he had created while in India. The book in which the aquatint plates after Howitt were published was called Oriental Field Sports, which describes itself as 'being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, and other undomesticated animals'.
  • Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945) The Heythrop at Stow on the Wold Lithograph 24 x 63cm   Signed in pencil. Framed.   A typical hunting print by Stewart, showing one of the country's leading packs.   Condition: Slight, even, loss of colour, as expected.   If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Franz Herbelot (French, active 1940s-1950s) Paris: La Rue de Chevalier de la Barre la nuit Lithograph 28 x 22 cm   A fantastic lithograph by Herbelot which brilliantly captures the spirit of mid-century Paris. Little is known of Herbelot's life, but he is most notable for his views of Paris. The Rue de Chevalier de la Barre is a street in Montmartre named after the Knight de la Barre, François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre, who died in 1766. Here, we see the street as it was in the 20th century, brimming with ladies and gentlemen dressed à la mode, bathed in the warm light of thriving bistros and hotels.
  • Claude Muncaster

    The Bow Wash

    Pen and watercolour 21x28cm Framed Provenance: Martin Muncaster, the artist's son. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056.
  • Anonymous (19th century) Eton College Courtyard

    Lithograph 29 x 38 cm We have a pair of these rather fine 19th century lithographs: see the second one here. Mounted to board.

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