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Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828) after Michael Angelo Rooker (1743/6 - 1801)
St Giles's with a part of St John's College (1813)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 25 x 32 cm An engraving of St Giles, including the famous St Giles Church, with the front of St John's to the right. Joseph Constantine Stadler was a prolific German émigré engraver of images after his contemporaries. Stadler's engravings are wide-ranging in subject matter and include landscapes, seascapes and portraits, as well as military, sporting and decorative subjects. Stadler was employed by the leading print publisher of the time, John Boydell. Stadler lived in Knightsbridge when he died at the age of 73. Michael Angelo Rooker ARA was an English oil and watercolour painter of architecture and landscapes, illustrator, and engraver. Condition: good. Some gentle age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of St John’s College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
St John's College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of St John's, 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. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
St John's College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Canterbury Quad, St John's, 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)
St John's College, Oxford
Initalled in pencil 25 x 20 cm From Casson’s ever-popular Oxford and Cambridge series of prints. 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 Prince of Wales 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: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Canterbury Quad, St John's College, Oxford
Engraving, 1675 32 x 51cm 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' (c. 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (b.1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Vanity Fair Spy Magazine President of St john's College Oxford
1 April 1893 Lithograph If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Richard Beer (1928-2017) St John's College, Oxford (1964-65)
Colour etching and aquatint on Velin Arches, published by Editions Alecto 58 x 43 cm Full sheet size 73 x 55.5 cm Signed, titled and numbered 19/100 Click here for biography and other works by this artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Print in good condition, margins well outside platemark show some discolouration and handling marks which will be hidden behind mat/mount. Mounted to board. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908) attributed Canterbury Quad, St John's College Oxford
Watercolour over pencil, unsigned 40.5x30.5cm Born in Leicester, John Fulleylove trained as an architect with a Leicester firm before becoming a full-time painter. He exhibited widely in the UK, at such venues as the Royal Academy, the Fine Art Society, and the Royal Society of British Artists. His paintings were the subject of illustrated topographical books, including one on ‘Oxford’ published by the Fine Art Society. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Laid to thick card support; generally very good, two small spots to sky visible in photograph. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
St John's College Oxford, Canterbury Quad
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 31x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Bryan de Grineau (1883-1957)
St John’s College, Oxford for The Illustrated London News
Front Quad
Signed and inscribed Pencil Drawing published in The Illustrated London News 18 June 1955 33 x 52 cm (13 x 20.5 in.) Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Richard Bankes Harraden (1778–1862)
St John's College, Oxford
Oil on board 24 x 29 cm Richard Bankes Harraden was a printmaker, painter and drawing master. He was active in Cambridge, producing many views of the colleges, and subsequently several Oxford colleges. Harraden was an early and exhibiting member of the Society of British Artists in London, which was established in 1823, and remained a member until 1849. He specialised in depictions of landscape, topography and architecture, and was the son of Richard Harraden (1756-1838) with whom he published plates as 'Harraden & Son'. Condition: A little craquelure and retouching. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe KBE RA FRIBA (1882-1974)
Heraldic Design for a carpet for the Senior Common Room, St John’s College Oxford
Watercolour and ink Signed and inscribed Provenance: The estate of Bernard Bumpus If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. 37x46cm (14.5×18.1 inches) Maufe designed buildings for his old Oxford College, St John’s, over an extended period, starting with two memorial slabs in 1923, and was made honorary fellow in 1943. His most major works were the Rawlinson Building extension (1933) and Dolphin Quad (1947). This design relates to the 1936 remodelling of the smoking room of the Senior Common Room. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. -
Sir Hugh Casson CH, KCVO, PRA, RDI (1910-1999) St John’s College, Oxford, Canterbury Quad Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘1988’ (on a label attached to the backboard) Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour 10.5 x 27cm (4 1/8 x 10 5/8in). Painted for inclusion in Hugh Casson’s Oxford (Phaidon Press Ltd, 1988). Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Bryan de Grineau (1883 - 1957)
Canterbury Quad, St John’s College, Oxford
Pencil 46 x 34 cm Signed and titled lower right. Drawing published in The Illustrated London News, 1955. Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. 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 St John's College, Oxford. -
Bryan de Grineau (1883 - 1957)
The Hall, St John’s College, Oxford
Pencil 34 x 56 cm Signed and titled lower right. Drawing published in The Illustrated London News, 18 June 1955. Condition: very good. Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
