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M Oliver Rae
All Souls, Oxford
Engraving 22.5x15cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
M. Oliver Rae (1868-1956)
Wadham College, Oxford
Etching Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. 11x8cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Mabel Oliver Rae (1868-1956) Wadham College Oxford
Etching Signed and titled in pencil 11x8.5 cm The rich tones of the etchings make them as popular today as when they were first made. Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Ken Messer (1931 - 2018)
Magdalen Bridge (1974)
Watercolour 24 x 27 cm Signed and dated lower right. The painter and draughtsman Ken Messer is closely related to Oxford and its architecture in several ways. Born in Newport, South Wales, he was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys in Oxford, and then spent six years working as an accountant in Oxford. He then joined British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as a steward, flying internationally. Injury due to a car accident during the 1960s meant that he joined the design department of Pergamon Press in Oxford at the age of 33. Six years later, he was appointed to the position of studio manager, in charge of art and design. In 1974, Messer left Pergamon Press to become a freelance graphic designer. He started painting more watercolours, becoming a full-time artist. During the 1980s, his ink drawings were regularly published in the Oxford Times. He has sometimes been called "The Oxford Artist" because of his large number of works depicting Oxford. He and his wife Dilys lived at first in Richmond upon Thames and then in Abingdon, just south of Oxford. Messer's work has been shown at the Mall Galleries for the annual exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours annual exhibitions. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more views of Magdalen College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Magdalen College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm A magnificent eighteenth-century view of Magdalen, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. Magdalen was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete, and is considered by many to be Oxford's most beautiful college. The college is organised around five quads; the irregularly shaped St John's Quad is the first on entering the college, and connects to the Great Quad (the Cloister) via the Perpendicular Gothic Founders Tower, which is richly decorated with carvings and pinnacles and has carved bosses in its vault. Chaplain's Quad runs along the side of the Chapel and Hall, to the foot of the Great Tower. St Swithun's Quad and Longwall Quad (which contains the Library) date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and make up the southwest corner of the college. 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 small area slightly lacking in ink. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
James Basire II (1769 - 1822) after Edward Dayes (1763 - 1804)
Magdalen Tower and Bridge etc. (1797)
Engraving 35 x 44 cm An engraving illustrating the pinnacles of Magdalen Tower and the Bridge below. James Basire II was a British engraver, son of James Basire I, also a celebrated engraver. In 1802 he became Engraver to the Society of Antiquaries. Edward Dayes was an English watercolour painter and mezzotint engraver. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, when he showed a portrait and views of Waltham Cross and Canterbury. In the three following years he exhibited both miniatures and landscapes. He continued to exhibit at the Academy regularly until the year of his death, contributing a total of 64 works. He also exhibited at the Society of Artists, and worked as draughtsman to the Duke of York and Albany. Condition: generally good; some age toning within margins. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Magdalen College, Oxford. -
Fred Taylor (1875 - 1963)
Magdalen Tower from Magdalen Bridge
Watercolour 25 x 37 cm Signed lower left. Fred Taylor captures the indomitable features of Magdalen Tower. The spire rises into a pale sky as undergraduates stream past the entrance to the Porter's Lodge. An old-fashioned car drives up the High.This watercolour of Magdalen was a design for the front cover of a guidebook about Oxford.Fred Taylor was a London-born painter and poster designer. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and Goldsmiths’ in London, later travelling to Italy on a scholarship to study art. He produced many poster designs for railway and shipping firms and was an official camoufleur during the Second World War. He exhibited at the Royal Academy.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 Magdalen College, Oxford. -
William Barnes (1916 - ?)
Magdalen Tower and Bridge
Watercolour 25 x 36 cm Signed lower right in ink. Magdalen Tower in all her glory, with pedestrians and a cyclist meandering over the bridge below. William Barnes was born in Brixton and trained at the Camberwell School of Art in the 1930s and the Wimbledon School of Art in the 1950s. Condition: good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Magdalen College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Map of Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century map of Oxford, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The aerial view shows the city and its university buildings in all their glory. 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. -
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. -
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. -
Robert Kent Thomas (1816-1884)
Merton College Oxford
Etching, pubished 1879 21.5x16.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good, mounted to board. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Merton College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Merton College, 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. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Merton College, Oxford
Lithograph 24 x 17 cm Titled in plate lower right and signed in pencil lower left. Casson's blue-toned view of Merton, complete with strolling undergraduates and leaning bicycles. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the young Charles III to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Faculty Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Merton College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
St Alban Hall, Oxford - now Merton College (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm St Alban Hall, sometimes known as St Alban's Hall or Stubbins, was one of the medieval halls of the University of Oxford, and one of the longest-surviving. It was established in the 13th century and was acquired by neighbouring Merton College in the 16th century. The institutions formally merged in the late 19th century. The site in Merton Street, Oxford, is now occupied by Merton's Edwardian St Alban's Quad. 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. -
Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876 - 1964)
Merton Street, Oxford
Watercolour 37 x 25.5 cm Signed in pencil lower right. A wintry view of Holywell Street, Oxford, where Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte famously take up lodgings in Brideshead Revisited. Magdalen Tower peeps out over the cobbled lane. On the other side of the wall is the Fellows Garden of Merton College. Bernard Cecil Gotch was a Winchester-born artist who is best known for his atmospheric watercolours of Britain's towns and cities (most notably Oxford). He moved to Oxford in 1927, painting many watercolours of the interiors and exteriors of Oxford’s many buildings. His works concentrate on the grand exteriors and interiors of the University's colleges, and he exhibited frequently - including an exhibition every term at Oriel College. His first notable commission was for the publisher Methuen, illustrating ''A Shepherd’s Life'' by W H Hudson. Whilst in London he was invited to illustrate a book on the Public Schools of England (which was sadly never completed). He exhibited watercolours at the Fine Art Society and Lincolns Inn, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1952 Gotch was given an Honorary MA by the University of Oxford, and, after his death in 1963, a memorial was held for him at Oriel. Condition: slight discolouration to paper. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
New College Lane, Oxford
Lithograph 35 x 28 cm Signed lower left and numbered 10 in ink. Between 1902 and 1904 William Nicholson lived in Woodstock; during this period he made several architectural studies of Oxford's colleges and other University buildings. Sir William Nicholson was a British painter and printmaker. He is also known as an illustrator, author of children’s books, stained glass designer, and theatre set designer. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures of New College, Oxford. -
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Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
New College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Le College Neuf (New College), engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, New College is one of the oldest colleges at the university and was the first to admit undergraduate students. Architecturally, New College was innovative in its design, in that it was all planned around an enclosed quadrangle (finished 1386). This was the first quadrangle of its type, though it has since become one of the defining features of colleges across Oxford and Cambridge. 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. -
William Logsdail (1859-1944)
Cloisters of New College, Oxford
Oil on board 39 x 28 cm Signed lower right. In original Watts-style gilt frame. Logsdail was educated at Lincoln Cathedral School and then Lincoln School of Art. Initially intending to become an architect, he was encouraged to divert his attentions to painting. After winning a Gold Medal in a competition against students of other English art schools, Logsdail continued his painting career at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Antwerp. His promise was recognised by the Royal Household when his 1880 picture The Fish Market was purchased for Osborne House. Logsdail went on to spend the next twenty years in Venice, studying and painting the city's architecture. His 1883 rendering of the Piazza of St Mark's, Venice, was named by the Royal Academy as picture of the year. He also spent time painting the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1912, having moved away from architectural painting and towards portraiture, he was elected to the Society of Portrait Painters. He settled in Oxfordshire in 1922. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
New College, Oxford (1705)
Engraving 31 x 49 cm Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645 - 1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK, 'Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne' (circa 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: repaired tear to central fold; has been washed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Matthison (1853-1926)
New College, Oxford: Front Quad
Watercolour 35 x 52 cm Signed lower right. A charming watercolour of New College's Front Quad complete with members of the college in academic dress, wandering birds, and a gardener mowing the grass. William of Wykeham, who founded New College in 1379, was an ambitious builder. His vision for the college was of a Chapel, Hall, Library, and rooms for tutors and students to work and live in, all of which would be built around a quadrangle. This was the first time a college had been set in this way, and it became a model for colleges worldwide. Matthison was born near Birmingham and attended King Edward’s School in the city. He learnt drawing at the Birmingham Central School of Art and then became a pupil of Birmingham artist Edward Watson. He became a professional artist in 1875 and moved to Oxfordshire a few years after; this was where he had the opportunity to produce many of the Oxford views for which he is known today. In 1902 he moved to Park Town in Oxford and was commissioned by Robert Peel to paint more than seventy views of the University of Oxford, which were subsequently made into postcards. Priced at seven for a shilling, they were only available from E Cross of Pembroke Street (a long-since closed business). Raphael Tuck & Sons also commissioned him to produce postcard scenes of Cambridge. Matthison’s views of Oxford were later printed in Fifty Watercolour Drawings of Oxford, published in 1912 by Alden & Co. Condition: generally very good; a few spots to sky. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
The Garden Quadrangle, New College, Oxford (1989)
Lithograph 25 x 39 cm Signed, titled and dated in plate, and numbered 153/500 and signed lower right in pencil. Casson's view of New College's Garden Quad, complete with picnicking undergraduates. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the young Charles III to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Faculty Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
New College, Oxford
Lithograph 29 x 35 cm Signed lower left and numbered 10. Between 1902 and 1904 William Nicholson lived in Woodstock; during this period he made several architectural studies of Oxford's colleges and other University buildings. Sir William Nicholson was a British painter and printmaker. He is also known as an illustrator, author of children’s books, stained glass designer, and theatre set designer. Condition: very good. In handsome faux-bamboo gilt frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Queen's College, Oxford. -
John Baptist Malchair (1730 – 1812)
View from the Master's Lodgings, New College, Oxford (1929)
Lithograph 33 x 46 cm A 1929 lithograph from a 1767 watercolour of New College by John Malchair. The artist's composition highlights the pale stone of New College on a winter's day. The chapel's spires stretch upward into a cold, cloud-filled sky, as do the bare branches of the trees. Malchair's watercolour (which is held by the Ashmolean museum) was reproduced as a lithograph in 1929, to be published in the "Oxford Almanack". The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanac published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019 (when printing sadly ceased due to "dwindling interest"). The almanac traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Other almanac artists have included James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper. Malchair was a German-born watercolourist, violinist, drawing master, and collector of traditional European music. He is described as “one of the most distinctive figures of eighteenth century Oxford”, and is recognised as having been an influence on later landscape artists, including John Constable. Malchair was a talented artist, producing hundreds of paintings of English landscapes. His legacy is the collection of hundreds of sketches and watercolours of historical, architectural and topographical interest, particularly of Oxford's medieval buildings. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876-1964)
The Bodleian Library, Oxford: Passageway into the Old Schools Quandrangle
Watercolour 49 x 35 cm Signed in pencil lower right. An enticing view of the passageway leading into the Old Schools Quad of the Bodleian Library. Through the gateway, we see the passageway leading out of the Quad onto the other side, into Radcliffe Square. A glimpse of the Radcliffe Camera, surrounded by its green lawn, is visible through the two passages. Bernard Cecil Gotch was a Winchester-born artist who is best known for his atmospheric watercolours of Britain's towns and cities (most notably Oxford). He moved to Oxford in 1927, painting many watercolours of the interiors and exteriors of Oxford’s many buildings. His works concentrate on the grand exteriors and interiors of the University's colleges, and he exhibited frequently - including an exhibition every term at Oriel College. His first notable commission was for the publisher Methuen, illustrating 'A Shepherd’s Life' by W H Hudson. Whilst in London he was invited to illustrate a book on the Public Schools of England (which was sadly never completed). He exhibited watercolours at the Fine Art Society and Lincolns Inn, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1952 Gotch was given an Honorary MA by the University of Oxford, and, after his death in 1963, a memorial was held for him at Oriel. Condition: very good. Framed, with washline mount. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Oriel College, Oxford (1736)
Engraving 35 x 43 cm This fantasia on Oriel, featuring a sublime rendering of the College's architecture and a parade of sound Oriel men, was featured in the 1736 edition of the Oxford Almanack. The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanack published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019 (when printing sadly ceased due to "dwindling interest"). The almanack traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Other almanack artists have included Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper. Basire and Dayes collaborated on several views of Oxford during the courses of their careers. Floreat Oriel! Condition: good. Trimmed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more views of Oriel. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Oriel College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Oriel College, 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. -
Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876-1964)
Oriel Square, Oxford, at the entrance to Bear Lane
Watercolour 27 x 36.5 cm Signed in pencil lower left. Oriel Square in the afternoon. Two undergraduates lean against the walls of Oriel College, talking, and another group make their way inside. Vintage cars (dating the picture to the 1920s, or 1930s?) are parked outside its gates, and the Oriel flag flies high. Bernard Cecil Gotch was a Winchester-born artist who is best known for his atmospheric watercolours of Britain's towns and cities (most notably Oxford). He moved to Oxford in 1927, painting many watercolours of the interiors and exteriors of Oxford’s many buildings. His works concentrate on the grand exteriors and interiors of the University's colleges, and he exhibited frequently - including an exhibition every term at Oriel College. His first notable commission was for the publisher Methuen, illustrating 'A Shepherd’s Life' by W H Hudson. Whilst in London he was invited to illustrate a book on the Public Schools of England (which was sadly never completed). He exhibited watercolours at the Fine Art Society and Lincolns Inn, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1952 Gotch was given an Honorary MA by the University of Oxford, and, after his death in 1963, a memorial was held for him at Oriel. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Ken Messer (1931 - 2018)
Oriel Street (1974)
Watercolour 39 x 21 cm Signed and dated lower right. The painter and draughtsman Ken Messer is closely related to Oxford and its architecture in several ways. Born in Newport, South Wales, he was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys in Oxford, and then spent six years working as an accountant in Oxford. He then joined British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as a steward, flying internationally. Injury due to a car accident during the 1960s meant that he joined the design department of Pergamon Press in Oxford at the age of 33. Six years later, he was appointed to the position of studio manager, in charge of art and design. In 1974, Messer left Pergamon Press to become a freelance graphic designer. He started painting more watercolours, becoming a full-time artist. During the 1980s, his ink drawings were regularly published in the Oxford Times. He has sometimes been called "The Oxford Artist" because of his large number of works depicting Oxford. He and his wife Dilys lived at first in Richmond upon Thames and then in Abingdon, just south of Oxford. Messer's work has been shown at the Mall Galleries for the annual exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours annual exhibitions. 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 Oxford. -
after Edward Dayes (1763 - 1804)
Oxford (1792)
Hand-coloured engraving 15 x 20 cm Published February 1st 1792 by Harrison & Co, Paternoster Row. A charmingly-coloured Oxford punting scene, with Magdalen Tower and other dreaming spires behind. Edward Dayes was an English watercolour painter and mezzotint engraver. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, when he showed a portrait and views of Waltham Cross and Canterbury. In the three following years he exhibited both miniatures and landscapes. He continued to exhibit at the Academy regularly until the year of his death, contributing a total of 64 works. He also exhibited at the Society of Artists, and worked as draughtsman to the Duke of York and Albany. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other general views of Oxford. -
Charles Paine (1895 - 1967)
Boat Race 1921
Lithograph 102 x 64 cm Signed upper right in plate. Charles Paine's iconic 1921 poster encourages the use of the London Underground in order to view the Boat Race. The slick design features one boat’s stern disappearing from the frame and the other boat’s bow entering it (Cambridge won that year), alongside a strikingly Art Deco typeface. Charles Paine was a versatile and prolific designer, who drew on his training in stained glass to create bold, structured and highly stylised lithographs for a variety of companies. This decorative and brightly-coloured map illustrates the various county regiments of Great Britain, with a border of regimental badges. Condition: backed to linen; excellent, two small areas of repair to margin (invisible); hint of old folds. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Boat Race pictures. -
John Donowell (flourished 1753 - 1786) A View of the Conduit part of Carfax Church, the Piazza called the Butter Market, the Town Hall, the West Front of Christ Church College, &c. in the University of Oxford (1750)
Engraving 29 x 42 cm An eighteenth century view of St Aldate''s, featuring the west front of Christ Church and the Town Hall. Undergraduates, academics, and townspeople saunter along, all under the watchful eye of Tom Tower. John Donowell was an eighteenth-century British architect and engraver, considered to be one of the principal architect-draughtsmen in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He exhibited in 1761 at the Free Society, then through the 1760s at the Society of Artists, and from 1778 to 1786 at the Royal Academy; prints, some hand-coloured, were published at this time. Condition: some browning; antique frame with old glass. 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)
Oxford from the East (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Oxford from the east, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The skies are wide and full of the University's dreaming spires. 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. -
Anonymous
Oxford High Street (c.1840)
Pencil & wash on paper 18x23cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884) The High, Oxford
Watercolour 15 x 21 cm Signed and dated indiscriminately lower left. A 19th-century view of the High Street, Oxford. The spire of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin towers over the street; a horse and cart and brightly-dressed pedestrians pass by. George Pyne was related to two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours – William Henry Pyne was his father, and John Varley his father-in-law. Pyne trained as an architectural draughtsman and lived in Oxford from the 1850s until his death in 1884, specialising in views of the city and its colleges. His Oxford pictures are both architecturally-minded and romantically creative, often combining intensely detailed depictions of college buildings with imagined pedestrian scenes. Pyne was also noted for his views of Cambridge and Eton, and for his drawing manuals ‘A Rudimentary and Practical Treatise on Perspective for Beginners’ (1848) and ‘Practical Rules on Drawing for the Operative Builder, and Young Student in Architecture’ (1854); the latter texts offer an insight into his method of depicting architecture and its surroundings. Condition: generally good; some spotting and toning to sky. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
Oxford Wings for Victory Poster Design II
c.1943 Gouache on paper 63 x 50 cm 81x66cm including hand-finished frame, UK shipping only Click here to see other posters from this series. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Anonymous
Oxford Wings for Victory Poster Design IV
c.1943 Gouache on paper 70 x 51 cm 89 x 68 cm including hand-finished frame, UK shipping only Click here to see other posters from this series. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Anonymous
Oxford Wings for Victory Poster Design
56x38cm 62x44cm including hand-finished black frame. Gouache on paper c. 1943 Click here to see other posters from this series and for more information on Wings for Victory campaigns. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: excellent, framed. -
Ken Messer (1931 - 2018)
Dreaming Spires
Watercolour 30 x 38 cm Signed lower left. Oxford's skyline, including the Radcliffe Camera, the spire of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, and Magdalen Tower, is silhouetted against the grey sky of a winter day. The trees in the foreground are stark and black. Messer's depiction of Oxford's dreaming spires is an outstanding architectural record of the city's - and University's - most remarkable buildings. The painter and draughtsman Ken Messer is closely related to Oxford and its architecture in several ways. Born in Newport, South Wales, he was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys in Oxford, and then spent six years working as an accountant in Oxford. He then joined British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as a steward, flying internationally. Injury due to a car accident during the 1960s meant that he joined the design department of Pergamon Press in Oxford at the age of 33. Six years later, he was appointed to the position of studio manager, in charge of art and design. In 1974, Messer left Pergamon Press to become a freelance graphic designer. He started painting more watercolours, becoming a full-time artist. During the 1980s, his ink drawings were regularly published in the Oxford Times. He has sometimes been called "The Oxford Artist" because of his large number of works depicting Oxford. He and his wife Dilys lived at first in Richmond upon Thames and then in Abingdon, just south of Oxford. Messer's work has been shown at the Mall Galleries for the annual exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours annual exhibitions. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Henry William Brewer (1836 - 1903)
Panorama of Oxford (1893)
Pen and ink heightened with body colour 40 x 123 cm Signed and dated 1893. Published in The Graphic as a photogravure image. A huge and beautifully-detailed panorama of Oxford at the end of the nineteenth century. POA. 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 the city of Oxford. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884)
Peckwater Quad, Christ Church, Oxford
Watercolour 27.5 x 17.5 cm Signed and dated 1849. A marvellous view of the Peckwater Quadrangle, more affectionately referred to as Peck Quad and known for having arguably the best undergraduate rooms in all of Oxford. The buildings on the north, east and west sides of the quad were designed by Henry Aldrich are one of the earliest examples of English neo-Palladian architecture. They were built by William Townsend between 1706 and 1711, while the Library on the south side was completed later in the eighteenth century. Peck looks rather different today - it is now mostly filled with lawn and hosts Christ Church's extremely large Christmas tree each year. In Pyne's day it was lawnless and filled with elegant pedestrians in nineteenth-century costume; in this view, afternoon light slants down over the buildings, and the lengthening shadows cast by the library creep into the quad. George Pyne was related to two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - William Henry Pyne was his father, and John Varley his father-in-law. Pyne trained as an architectural draughtsman and lived in Oxford from the 1850s until his death in 1884, specialising in views of the city and its colleges. His Oxford pictures are both architecturally-minded and romantically creative, often combining intensely detailed depictions of college buildings with imagined pedestrian scenes. Pyne was also noted for his views of Cambridge and Eton, and for his drawing manuals 'A Rudimentary and Practical Treatise on Perspective for Beginners' (1848) and 'Practical Rules on Drawing for the Operative Builder, and Young Student in Architecture' (1854); the latter texts offer an insight into his method of depicting architecture and its surroundings. 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 Christ Church. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Pembroke College, Oxford (1675)
Engraving 31 x 44 cm Loggan's view of Pembroke from the 'Oxonia Illustrata'. Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK, 'Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne' (circa 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. 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 Pembroke College, Oxford. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Pembroke College, Oxford (1705)
Engraving 31 x 44 cm Loggan's view of Pembroke from the second edition of the 'Oxonia Illustrata'. Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK, 'Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne' (circa 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: good. Backed to Japanese Paper. Evidence of some historic separation to central fold. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Pembroke College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Pembroke College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Pembroke College, Oxford, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after an earlier one by 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. -
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Pembroke College, View from the North Quadrangle (1966)
Lithograph 36 x 50 cm A lithograph of Pembroke's North Quad, from a drawing by Alan Sorrell. The artist's striking use of perspective and nebulously sketched figures make it a good example of Sorrell's style. Sorrell's 1965 etching was reproduced as a lithograph a year later, to be published in the "Oxford Almanack". The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanac published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019 (when printing sadly ceased due to "dwindling interest"). The almanac traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Other almanac artists have included James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper. Alan Ernest Sorrell was an English artist and writer best remembered for his archaeological illustrations, particularly his detailed reconstructions of Roman Britain. Sorrell trained at the Southend municipal school of art and, after a brief spell as a commercial artist in London, he attended the Royal College of Art between 1924 and 1927. He was a Senior Assistant Instructor of Drawing there between 1931 and 1939, and again between 1946 and 1948. In 1937 he had been elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society, and during the war served as a camofleur. After the war, Sorrell's archaeological and architectural work became their focus. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Percy Drake Brookshaw (1907-1993) Boat Race
Lithograph in colours, 1937 25 x 30cm (10 x 12.5 inches) Vintage Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race poster from 1937. These small posters were designed to be utilised on buses. Born in Southwark and educated at the Central Schools of Arts and Crafts, Drake Brookshaw was a renowned designer for the Underground Group and London Transport between 1928 and 1958. His wonderful posters evoke a feeling of movement, and probably none more so than this one as the seven visible men strain on their oars. His clever use of colour includes both light blue for Cambridge, and dark blue for Oxford. If you are interested in something similar, or have something similar to sell email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Williams (Welsh, active 1724 - 1733)
Jesus College, Oxford (circa 1732)
Engraving 43 x 44 cm This engraving of the city of Oxford, adorned with its eponymous dreaming spires, comes from the 'Oxonia Depicta', a large folio of engraved plates illustrating Oxford's halls and colleges. Condition: previously folded; some losses to folds, some toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
