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Anon.
Camden Festival Routemaster
Slipboard Poster c.1970 Screenprint poster 64x9cm In a black hand-finished frame. Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT buses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
William Kip (active 1598 - 1610) after Christopher Saxton (1540 - 1610)
Map of Cambridgeshire (1637)
Engraving with later hand colouring 29 x 32 cm An antique map of Cambridgeshire. The map was originally published in William Camden's atlas 'Britannia', which was first published in 1586. William Kip was a goldsmith and map engraver. He was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands and moved to London to pursue his career as an engraver. Alongside William Hole, Kip re-engraved Christopher Saxton's 1574 county maps for publication in Camden's 'Britannia', and it is this venture for which he is most well-known. Christopher Saxton was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales. Between 1574 and 1578 he engraved maps of every county in Britain, and compiled them into an atlas in 1579. These maps bore Queen Elizabeth I's arms as well as those of Saxton's patron, Thomas Seckford. Condition: generally good; faint evidence of old staining. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more maps and general pictures of Cambridge. -
John Speed (1551 or 1552 - 1629)
Map of Cambridgeshire
Engraving with later hand colouring 39 x 53 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. The map is populated by four figures in academic dress, and bordered on all sides by college crests. 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. Condition: generally very good; one tiny hole to right side just beyond plate mark. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more Cambridge pictures. -
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Johannes Kip (1652 - 1722) after R Whitehand
Prospect of Cambridge from the South East (1724)
Engraving 57 x 88 cm A view of the city of Cambridge, replete with college spires, by Johannes ''Jan'' Kip, the Dutch draughtsman, engraver and print dealer. The engraving illustrates an 18th century Cambridge defined by livestock and farmhands, as well as its University. The largest and best view of Cambridge, extremely rare - we have not traced any other copies at auction. Condition: good. Previously folded, occasional small losses and the odd slightly toned patch; two joined sheets. Trimmed to within platemark; very rare. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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V Robinson
The Lent Bumps 1931 - 1940
Pen, ink and watercolour 60 x 48 cm A hand-painted chart illustrating the results of the Lent Bumps from 1931 to 1939, with a note that in 1940 there were 'No Lent Races due to War'. The Lent Bumps, also known as "Lents" or the Lent Races are a set of University of Cambridge rowing races held each year on the River Cam. The races are open to all college boat clubs from the University of Cambridge, the University Medical and Veterinary Schools and Anglia Ruskin Boat Club. The Lent Bumps take place over five days (Tuesday to Saturday) at the end of February / start of March and are run as bumps races (of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file, each crew attempting to catch and 'bump' the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind). The men's races officially began in 1887 and the women's in 1976. Condition: generally good; some age toning to board and a little staining to the margins that will be hidden by a mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Cambridge pictures. -
Ernest William Haslehurst (1866 - 1949)
The Market Place, Cambridge, with a view of Great St Mary’s Church and King's College Chapel
Watercolour 33.5 x 23 cm Haslehurst's watercolour of Cambridge's marketplace, overlooked by the spires of King's College Chapel and Great St Mary's. Ernest William Haslehust was an English landscape painter and book illustrator who worked in watercolours. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC), and exhibited regularly at many venues including the Royal Academy in London. He also designed posters for the LNER and LMS railway companies, and his art was featured in many magazines of the day including the Illustrated London News and The Tatler. Condition: generally good. Some spotting. 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. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Cambridge from the East (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Cambridge from the East, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter who specialised in engravings of Oxford and Cambridge. A wide Cambridgeshire sky opens out over the harvest scene; in the background, the spires of the city's skyline are numbered, and identified below. A fascinating engraving which muses on the relationship between the city and its University. 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: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Burra (1905 - 1976)
Café
(1928 - 1929, this edition published 1971) Woodcut 10 x 15 cm; sheet size 24 x 34 cm Numbered 15/45 lower left and initialled EB lower right. Published by the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery in 1971. Burra's woodcut of a male and a female figure, entitled 'Café'. The two figures, seemingly a couple, gaze at one another intensely and intimately, giving the impression of having been interrupted by the viewer. Both figures' faces bear tattoo-like markings: he a star and the moon, she a geometric design resembling a noughts-and-crosses board. The "café" in which they sit is a dreamily abstract landscape full of palms and other plants from the tropics. Edward Burra was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He travelled to Italy in 1925, the same year he met the noted British Surrealist Paul Nash, and both of these influences are evident in this woodcut. Nash introduced Burra to woodcut-making in 1928, the same year that Burra began this woodcut series. His first solo show was held at the Leicester Galleries in April 1929, and he exhibited with the English Surrealists in the 1930s. Condition: Excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
C.A. Hay
Valle Crucis Abbey, Wales (early 19th century)
Pen, ink and monochrome watercolour 8 x 12 cm Valle Crucis is a Cistercian abbey located in Llantysilio in Denbighshire, Wales. The abbey was built in 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, Prince of Powys Fadog. In 1537, at the height of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, Valle Crucis was dissolved and fell into disrepair. The abbey is now a ruin, though large parts of the original structure still survive. We also have in stock an en-suite watercolour of the nearby Llangollen Bridge; it is likely that some of the abbey's stone was used to build the bridge after the abbey had been dissolved. Condition: Generally very good. Signed lower right. -
C.A. Hay
Llangollen Bridge, Wales (early 19th century)
Pen, ink and monochrome watercolour 8 x 12 cm Llangollen Bridge is built across the River Dee at the North end of the high street of Llangollen in the county of Denbigshire in Wales. The Bridge is listed as one of the seven wonders of Wales and is Grade I listed. There has been a bridge across the Dee at Llangollen since at least 1284. Some historians believe that the bridge was constructed in the 1540s; there is evidence of sepulchral slabs within the bridge's masonry, indicating that it was rebuilt following the dissolution of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. We also have in stock an en-suite watercolour of the nearby Valle Crucis abbey, from which some of the bridge's stone might have been taken. Condition: Generally very good. Signed lower right. -
Johannes Kip (1652 - 1722) and Leonard Knyff (1650 - 1722)
Burlington House (1707)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 36 x 50 cm The linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff made a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in detail from the bird's-eye view, a pictorial convention for topography. Their major work was Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates, London (1707, published in the winter of 1708-9). The volume is among the most important English topographical publications of the 18th century. Architecture is rendered with care, and the settings of parterres and radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths, gates and toolsheds are illustrated in detail. The images are staffed with figures and horses, coaches pulling into forecourts, water-craft on rivers, in line with the traditions of the Low Countries. The inscription in the plate reads: Burlington House in Pickadilly Belonging to the R.t Honble Charles Boyle Baron Clifforde of Londesburgh, and Earle of Burlington Baron of younghall & Bandon, Viscount Kynalmeaky & Dungarvan, Earle of Corke in the Kingdom of Ireland, Chief Governour of the County of Corke, and the Citty, and County of the Citty of Corke, Lord high Treasurer of Ireland, Lord high Steward of the Royalty of Knaresburgh in the County of Yorke, & one of the Gentlemen of his Majties Beddchamber. Condition: recent hand colouring, with wash-lined mount. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Builders YOU Are Hitting Back Original WW2 Poster (c.1940)
'Builders - YOU Are Hitting Back' Original WW2 Poster (c.1940) 76 x 50.5 cm Lithograph and letterpress (on paper) Printed by Lowe and Brydone Printers Ltd, London NW10. Published by HM Stationery Office. Because: You are building bases for the Flying Boats which guard the convoys You are building the Factories which makes the guns, tanks, planes & shells You are building the Airfields for the ever increasing number of bombers and fighters - Spitfire You are building the Hostels for your fellow workers to live in You are building the warehouses which store the Nation's Food Supply -
Bryan Ingham (1936-1997)
Erotische Bild (1988)
Oil on board 62 x 11 cm Provenance: Fracis Graham-Dixon gallery. Titled to backboard and dated 1988. Bryan Ingham was born in Yorkshire. For his National Service he joined the RAF, and spent his time in Germany as an airman. After demobilisation, his final report included the statement that "Ingham is an artistic sort of airman." In his spare time he had started painting in oils, and by the time he left the RAF he had completed a large number of paintings. He studied at St Martin's School of Art in London, where he had the tuition of a fine post-war generation of teachers who helped him to hone his draughtsmanship and other skills, and he swiftly showed a capacity for painting that drew the attention of his tutors and peers. On graduating he was offered and accepted a post-graduate place at the Royal College of Art, where in his second year he was awarded a Royal Scholarship and was a contemporary of a number of now better-known names including David Hockney. Ingham applied for and received a Leverhulme travel award to explore the sites of the great Renaissance painters, and spent many happy months engaged in this expedition. He spent time at the English Art school in Rome, where he lived well and busied himself the same studio that Barbara Hepworth had used. At this stage of his career, Ingham consciously rejected the prospect of pursuing a career as an establishment artist, although the RA was open to him, and he went to live in remote cottage in Cornwall. The subsequent years were varied and highly productive, and Ingham's personal artistic voice emerged in his oeuvre in the form of an always-developing dialogue with influences both of landscape and other artists of every age. His preoccupation with etching resulted in several hundred plates, some very large, and the results are as unmistakable as they are varied, but invariably of outstanding quality. He produced a number of sculptures in bronze and in plaster, while his lifelong output of paintings remained small but again of very high quality. He taught etching regularly until about 5 years before his death, latterly at Falmouth Art School, and also at Farnham Art College. During the late eighties he established a relationship with the art dealer Francis Graham-Dixon, who had a London gallery. This meant that his paintings were professionally marketed for the first time, and prices for his work rose steadily in the last ten years of his life, and subsequently. He was able to purchase a cottage in Helston for his parents, who lived there until their deaths. He then moved into a fine set of converted-barn studios with a patch of garden, quietly situated off the High St in Helston, and it was here, on 22 September 1997, that he died, having quietly suffered from cancer for nearly a year. Condition: Generally very good, scrapes to board as intended by artist. Framed. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Bryan Ingham (1936-1997)
Upright Jug (1993-95)
Pencil and oil on board 64 x 19 cm Provenance: Bohun Galleries, Paintings in Hospitals. Signed, titled and dated 1993-95 (on backboard). Bryan Ingham was born in Yorkshire. For his National Service he joined the RAF, and spent his time in Germany as an airman. After demobilisation, his final report included the statement that "Ingham is an artistic sort of airman." In his spare time he had started painting in oils, and by the time he left the RAF he had completed a large number of paintings. He studied at St Martin's School of Art in London, where he had the tuition of a fine post-war generation of teachers who helped him to hone his draughtsmanship and other skills, and he swiftly showed a capacity for painting that drew the attention of his tutors and peers. On graduating he was offered and accepted a post-graduate place at the Royal College of Art, where in his second year he was awarded a Royal Scholarship and was a contemporary of a number of now better-known names including David Hockney. Ingham applied for and received a Leverhulme travel award to explore the sites of the great Renaissance painters, and spent many happy months engaged in this expedition. He spent time at the English Art school in Rome, where he lived well and busied himself the same studio that Barbara Hepworth had used. At this stage of his career, Ingham consciously rejected the prospect of pursuing a career as an establishment artist, although the RA was open to him, and he went to live in remote cottage in Cornwall. The subsequent years were varied and highly productive, and Ingham's personal artistic voice emerged in his oeuvre in the form of an always-developing dialogue with influences both of landscape and other artists of every age. His preoccupation with etching resulted in several hundred plates, some very large, and the results are as unmistakable as they are varied, but invariably of outstanding quality. He produced a number of sculptures in bronze and in plaster, while his lifelong output of paintings remained small but again of very high quality. He taught etching regularly until about 5 years before his death, latterly at Falmouth Art School, and also at Farnham Art College. During the late eighties he established a relationship with the art dealer Francis Graham-Dixon, who had a London gallery. This meant that his paintings were professionally marketed for the first time, and prices for his work rose steadily in the last ten years of his life, and subsequently. He was able to purchase a cottage in Helston for his parents, who lived there until their deaths. He then moved into a fine set of converted-barn studios with a patch of garden, quietly situated off the High St in Helston, and it was here, on 22 September 1997, that he died, having quietly suffered from cancer for nearly a year. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent; framed. -
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. -
Leslie Arthur Wilcox RI RSMA (1904-1982) National Savings - Make Sure Your Ship Comes In
c.1945 75x50cm Original Vintage Poster During World War 2, the British Government had two particular financial problems addressed by this poster. There was little to buy, so the general populace had surplus cash to spend. If they spent it, this would be inflationary and would reduce the supply of items. Likewise, the Government needed money to spend on materiel and was short of cash. Encouraging the population to lend its spare cash to the Government was therefore a solution to this problem, and a series of posters - and other advertisings campaigns - aimed to address this point. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. A few tiny tears to margin, not into image. -
Stanley Kennedy North (1887 - 1942)
British Empire Exhibition Map (1924)
Lithograph 51 x 75 cm This fascinating and attractive map with elaborate cartouche highlights the attractions of the British Empire Exhibition, a showcase held in London to exhibit the fruits of Britain's overseas colonies. It was designed to boost support for the Empire's activities, encourage trade of imperial goods, and remind other world powers of Britain's (historic) colonial capacity. The Empire Stadium was built especially to house the exhibition; it is known today as Wembley Stadium. The exhibition was opened by King George V on St George's Day, 1924. Condition: generally good; folds as issued; a few short tears at corners. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Attributed to John Worsley
Join the New Regular Army - A Real Man's Life
Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Printed by Chromoworks Limited, 1959 Lithographic poster 75x50cm Worsley was a war artist during World War II who was captured by the Germans and then an illustrator for Eagle comic. Click here for further biographical details and other posters by Worsley. The Soldier of the Queen depicted is a tank commander. At the time the poster was printed the main location for deployment of tanks was West Germany. In 1946 the British Army of the Rhine was created to protect Germany - and indeed Europe - from a Soviet invasion. Numbering up to 80,000 soldiers it was estimated that in the event of war the life expectancy of a tank commander would be less than two days. A Real Man's Life indeed. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Mabel Oliver Rae (1868 - 1956)
The Bridge of Sighs, St John's College, Cambridge (circa 1920)
Etching 13 x 18 cm Hand-signed in pencil lower left, and titled in pencil lower right. Initialled 'MR' in plate lower left. The Bridge of Sighs is an iconic feature of St John’s College, and one of the most recognisable pieces of architecture in Cambridge. It was built in 1831 by the architect Henry Hutchinson and crosses the River Cam between the college's Third Court and New Court. It is the only covered bridge to cross the River Cam, and the only College bridge built in the Victorian Gothic style. Mabel Oliver Rae was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, and trained at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1888 and 1890. Rae is known for her skilled etchings of various rural scenes and townscapes, particularly those of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. She signed works with the pseudonym 'M.Oliver Rae', a ruse to conceal the fact she was a female artist, so as not to reduce her chances with commercial dealers and agents. Condition: even age toning, a little spotting, generally good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Tom Tower Christ Church 38/195 Screenprint 66x58cm Here he surreally captures rippling reflection of Tom Tower in Christchurch. The style is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Peckwater Christ Church 74/195
Screen print 68.5x56cm Here he surreally captures Peckwater Quad in Christchurch, experimenting with pictorial structure with vivacious dashes of blue, orange and yellow. It is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Gilbert Scott's Rose Window Christ Church Oxford 106/195
Screenprint 66x58cm Here Neiland captures the colours of the new window installed in the cathedral by George Gilbert Scott (Junior) c. 1870. The style is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Alice's Garden Oxford 50/195
Screenprint 66.5x57cm Here he surreally captures rippling reflection of Tom Tower in Christchurch. The style is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendan Neiland (b.1941)
York Intercity Poster
Original Vintage Poster - lithograph 102x64cm (40×25 inches) each 1991 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. -
Brendan Neiland (b.1941)
Original Designs for Intercity Posters - Edinburgh and York
Collage, spraypaint and cut out 91x58cm (36×23 inches) each 1991 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. -
Brendan Neiland (b.1941)
Kings Cross Intercity Poster
Original Vintage Poster - lithograph 102x64cm (40×25 inches) each 1991 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. -
Brenda King (1934-2011)
Venetian Schoolchildren (1974)
Oil on board 16.5.x 20.5 cm Signed and dated lower right. Naive scene of school children in a Venetian square in a distinctive 1970s frame. Brenda King was born in Cumbria in 1934. She enrolled at the Lancaster College of Art from 1950 to 1954 before enrolling at the Royal Academy from 1954 to 1957, indeed, going on to exhibit frequently at the RA summer exhibition. She moved to Cornwall in 1975 with her landscape painter husband Jeremy King (b.1933), and the pair shared a studio in St Just, Lands End. Her distinctively naive and playful style, often capturing incidental figures in quaint, pastoral British scenes, is said to have been strongly influenced by the oils and watercolours of Helen Bradley (1900-1979), another Lancastrian. If you are interested e-mail info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056 Condition: Generally excellent, original 1970s frame shows some wear. -
Breckenridge, Colorado Vintage Ski Poster USA (1967)
67 x 53 cm Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1967 Travel poster for skiing in Breckenridge, Colorado, featuring a photograph of a smiling skier - Trygve Berge sporting Kneissl skis - and a rather cool pair of shades and jumper. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. Condition: Excellent. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Brasenose College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of 'Le Nez de Bronze', or Brasenose, 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. -
John Boydell (1719-1804)
A South Prospect of the City of Oxford
Hand-coloured engraving published 1751 in the series Four Views of Oxford 28x44.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. One of the most influential Georgian printsellers, Boydell was apprenticed to William Henry Toms at the age of 21, studying drawing at the St Marin's Lane Academy. From 1755 he imported foreign prints in great numbers. He became Mayor of London in 1790. -
Bowens (British, fl. mid 20th Century) Cambridge: Centre of Scientific Research
Pye Group Records Pye - Nixa - Mercury - Vanguard - EmArcy c. mid-late 1950s Haig Road in Cambridge, where Pye had their factory, was subsumed into Elizabeth Way and was a long way from King's College chapel. However that iconic building is used to illustrate the Cambridge connection. EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records. Mercury Record Corporation was founded in Chicago in 1945 Pye Records was a British record label; it had started life manufacturing televisions and radios, with its main plant off Haig Road in Cambridge. It purchased Nixa Records in 1953 Vanguard Records is a US record label set up in 1950 primarily as a classical label. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Herbert Harris (1888 - 1962)
Bovril - vi terra a galla ("Bovril keeps you afloat")
Lithograph 128 x 90 cm An original vintage poster advertising Bovril. The poster was designed in 1920 by notable poster artist Herbert Harris for the advertising agency S H Bentley. It originally read 'Bovril prevents that sinking feeling' in English. Bovril, says the poster, is the ultimate comfort, and will keep you going in adversity. The Italian version of the poster, published in the 1930s, instead supplied "Bovril - vi terra a galla" - "Bovril keeps you afloat". German and French versions with appropriate idioms were also produced; these European versions of the poster were Musso & Co. and designed by the Max Dalang Atelier, both in Zurich. Condition: generally very good; repaired tear from edge approx 4" long towards bottom on left side, essentially invisible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Bovril
Lithograph 75 x 73 cm An original advertisement for Bovril, featuring the brand's uniquely shaped amber glass bottle. One of the instructions for preparing the meat paste into a liquid is 'Stir Well from the Bottom', which went on to become a recognisable tagline for Bovril. Condition: old folds as issued; otherwise generally good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden (1675)
Engraving 40 x 50 cm An eighteenth-century view of one of Oxford's dreamiest spaces: the Botanic Garden, engraved by David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden was founded in 1621 and is the oldest botanical garden in Great Britain. Loggan's engraving focuses on its architectural qualities, with four features of the garden highlighted for their beauty, symmetry, and prowess of design. Of particular interest in this etching are the six trompe l'oeil pieces: four gently curling pieces of paper which frame the gates of the garden, and two heraldic banners borne by cherubs and sporting legends about the garden's foundation. The Danby Gate (bottom left) at the front entrance to the garden is one of the three entrances designed by Nicholas Stone between 1632 and 1633. The gateway consists of three bays, each with a pediment; the niches contain statues of Charles I and Charles II in classical pose, and the niche in the the central pediment contains a bust of the Earl of Danby (hence the gate's name). 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: slight toning to central margin, odd marginal losses. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous Boston Museum Centennial 1870-1970
"Narcissus Tapestry, French or Franco-Flemish, Late 15th or 16th Century, Centennial Acquisition" 97x70cm Vintage poster 1970 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Two repaired edge tears to right margin, not into image, one 3" long, other shorter; one repaired short tear to left. -
Anonymous Boston Museum Centennial 1870-1970
"Mandala of Eight Bodhisatlvas, Nepal 12th Century, Centennial Acquisition" 97x70cm Vintage poster 1970 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Valerie Thornton (1931-1991)
Bodleian Quadrangle, Oxford (1983)
Etching 24 x 35 cm Numbered 13/75 lower left, titled below, and signed and dated lower right, all in pencil. A very good example of Thornton's recognisable and unusual etching style. Her work is deeply concerned with material, and many of her etchings focus on eroded stone, emotive landscapes, and weathered architecture. Here, Thornton draws out the exceptional texture of the Bodleian Library's local stone. Valerie Thornton was a British etcher and printmaker. She was born in London, but was evacuated to Canada with her two brothers during World War II. She returned to London in 1944 and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in 1949. From 1950 to 1953 Thornton studied under P.F. Millard at the Regent Street Polytechnic, then spent eight months at Atelier 17 in Paris. In the early 1960s, she moved to New York and worked at Pratt Graphic Art Centre. In 1955, she succeeded Howard Hodgkin as assistant art teacher at Charterhouse School and in 1965 she became a founding member of the Print Makers Council. In 1970 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers. Thornton was a member of The Regent Street Group (a group of nine artists who studied together at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the early 1950s). The group also included Susan Horsfield, Renate Meyer, Michael Lewis, Ken Symonds, Philip Le Bas, and Peter Riches. Thornton's work is included in a number of major public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, and the Tate. Thornton died in 1991 in Chelsworth, Suffolk. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more works by Valerie Thornton. -
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Brownbridge (flourished 1930s - 1940s)
Boat Race at the Dorchester (1939)
Lithographic brochure 15 x 19.5 cm From a small archive of works by Brownbridge, a member of the Society of Industrial Artists. A design for a poster advertising the Dorchester's dinner after the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The artist has built his design around dark and light blues, to represent the colours of Oxford and Cambridge respectively. Brownbridge's design is marvellously 1930s, from the boldly decorative typeface to the whimsically glamorous guests and their waiters floating below the invitation. Boat Race dinners in London are rather different today; at any rate, prices are not normally advertised as 'excluding Wines and Cigars'. Society of Industrial Artists correspondance (photographed above) is not included; please enquire separately. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other designs by Brownbridge. -
Bloomfields Car Showroom and Esso Garage, 88-106 Camberwell Road, London SE5
Gouache 39 x 52 cm A stylish gouache depiction of the Bloomfields Car Showroom, still extant as a car repair shop at 104-106 Camberwell Road. The artist completes the architectural perspective with brightly coloured mid-century cars and a mackintosh-clad gentleman. Condition: good; some wrinkling to paper and slight discolouration in areas. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more architectural views. -
Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981) Reclining Nude, c. 1936
Tempera on canvas 76.5 x 102cm Signed lower right 'Blair H S'. Provenance: The estate of the artist. A magnificent abstract nude rendered in a dynamic colour palette. This is probably Hughes-Stanton's most important work, and belongs to the nation's great, if brief, period of British Surrealism. The three major elements are distinct: the pastel tones of the window view and wall, the sensual curvatures of the pale nude, and the bold foreground featuring a fantastically accomplished still life of a fruit bowl (which could be a painting in and of itself) and the impressively phallic chair back. This is a brilliant example of erotic modernist abstraction. Blair Hughes-Stanton, son of the artist Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton, was a noted British artist of the interwar period. At the age of 13 he joined the Royal Navy training ship HMS Coway, but at 19 - advised by his father - he abandoned the sea for his paintbox. He studied art at Byam Shaw School (1919-1922) where he was influenced by Leon Underwood (who was a major influence throughout his studying), Royal Academy Schools (1922-23), and Leon Underwood's School (1923-25). He was celebrated mostly for his skills as an engraver, and was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society when it was established in 1925. His first wife was the printmaker Gertrude Hermes with whom he illustrated John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress in 1928. In 1931 he became head of the Gregynog Press, later establishing the Gemini Press with his second wife Ida Graves. During the course of his career he worked in various media, though his art frequently focused on the female nude. He taught at Westminster School of Art (1934-39), Colchester School of Art (1945-47); St Martin's School of Art (1947-48); and Central School of Arts and Crafts (1948-80). His teaching career was interrupted by the Second World War, during which he served as a camofleur and then joined the Royal Engineers (ignoring his earlier life in the Navy). Serving in Greece, he was captured as a prisoner of war and was imprisoned in a camp. He returned to England after the war. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Blackheath Routemaster Slipboard Poster c1970
Screenprint poster 64x9cm In a black hand-finished frame. Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT buses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Birth of a Lancaster
Original Silver Gelatin photograph, 1942 19 x 25 cm Stamped to reverse "Topical Press Agency Limited, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street London" and (partially obscured) "Certified by Topical Press Agency as passed by censor" "The Avro Lancaster - the fastest and greatest load carrier of all the world's heavy bombers, and scourge of the Germans from Cologne to Gdynia, Rostock to Augsburg near Munich, is now being produced so speedily that fresh squadrons are being equipped weekly, and nightly spread terror and destruction through the German industrial centres. "Photo shown: a girl inspector goes over every detail of fitting work in the bomber's nose. She is occupying the position that the bomb aimer will take on operational work. Every small part of the plane has undergone stringent inspection. "Ref number Y7119 Topical Press 2/9/42" There is nothing new in the world, a pretty girl always captures the attention of the photographer. In war-torn Britain, of course, the contribution of women to the war effort was hugely important, replacing men in factories so that the men could go off to war. Provenance: from the collection of Philip J R Moyes, author of many books on the RAF, most notably The Pictorial History which ran to several volumes. Condition: mostly good. -
after Samuel Buck (1696 - 1779) and Nathaniel Buck (active 1724 - 1759)
The South View of Bindon Abbey, in the County of Dorset (1733)
Engraving 20 x 37 cm An engraved view of Bindon Abbey, a Cistercian monastery on the River Frome in Dorset. The monastery was founded in 1149 by William de Glastonia on the site since known as Little Bindon near Bindon Hill. In 1172 the monastery moved to a site near Wool, and was supported by the house of Plantagenet. The abbey was scheduled for Dissolution in 1536, and finally dissolved in 1539. Only ruins remain. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were brothers and notable 18th century architectural artists, best known for their depictions of ancient castles and monasteries entitled 'Buck's Antiquities' and those of townscapes of England and Wales, ''Sea-Ports and Capital Towns''. Little is known about the brothers' lives. Samuel was born in Yorkshire and died in penury in London in 1779, and was buried in the churchyard of St Clement Danes. Nathaniel pre-deceased him, dying between 1759 and 1774. Condition: generally good; some age toning; mounted to board; sheet trimmed outside platemark. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Design for Bianchini Ferier, Lyon for a scarf
Pen and Gouache c. 1940 75cm x 75cm "The prowess of our R.A.F. has not taken long to show a real effectiveness. The encounters of the last few days has sown to our enemy our supremacy. Difficult missions have been crowned with success by our different units. Flying sometime above 7000 feet in clouded skies surprising the enemy at a low altitude and exposing themselves to the enemy to protect the army. Their courage never falters." In the months prior to the Fall of France in May 1940 - before the Battle of Britain began - the RAF was in action in the skies above France and this design for a scarf depicts aeroplanes and pilots of the RAF. -
Design for Bianchi Ferier, Lyon for a silk scarf 5 March 1945
Gouache, pen and ink 78cm x 76cm Provenance: The Bianchi Ferrier archive sale at Christies On 9 February 1945 the 'Colmar Pocket' was finally cleared of Germans - a process that had started in November 1944 - and the province of Alsace changed hands between France and Germany for the fourth time in 75 years. Happily in the succeeding 75 years Alsace has not changed ownership. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Anonymous
Berlin (1955)
Lithographic poster 84 x 61 cm Original Vintage Poster Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche from Kurfürstendamm by Night A view of the 'Champs Elysee' of Berlin, the main shopping street in 1955. Although it was designed just ten years after the Second World War's end, when much of the city still bore the scars of devastating conflict, the poster still manages to evoke a pre-war idea of Berlin (especially seen through the glamorous lens of the postwar 1950s). Fashionable figures cross the street, the cars are the latest and brightest, and the humming city is reflected in the wet road. This poster was designed to be overprinted with the name of the local airline. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Backed to linen. Small loss to bottom left corner in margin; a little white spotting to the 'Berlin' panel.
