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Leo Vernon
West Africa (British Empire 1948)
Printed by J.Howitt & Son Ltd Lithographic poster 20×30 inches If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056 -
Reginald Hallward Grapevine Altar Cloth Design
Reginald Hallward Grapevine Altar Cloth Design Watercolour and pencil 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. -
Leslie Carr (1891 - 1969)
1440 Great Northern Railway (1910)
Pen and ink 19 x 41 cm Signed and dated lower right. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. Although many local lines have been closed, much of the network remains active today. Leslie Carr was a painter and poster designer from London. He served in the Tank Corps in the First World War and then became a professional artist, mainly producing maritime and architectural scenes. He designed posters for Southern Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, and British Railways (among others). Carr served as a fireman in the Second World War and was a part of several firemen artists' exhibitions. Carr was a member of the Society of Marine Artists. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by the artist. -
David Roberts (1769 - 1864)
Citadel of Sidon - April 28th, 1839 (published 1943)
Lithograph with hand-colouring 23 x 35 cm (sheet size 17.5 x 24.5 cm) The Citadel of Sidon, or Sidon Sea Castle, was built by crusaders in the thirteenth century as a fortress of the holy land. This lithograph is part of David Roberts' series of views of the Holy Land, which he produced from sketches made during lengthy tours of the Near East in the 1830s. Egypt was much in vogue at this time, and travellers, collectors and lovers of antiquities were keen to buy works inspired by the East or depicting the great monuments of ancient Egypt; Roberts was more than happy to produce pictures on this lucrative theme. Queen Victoria was one of his 400 subscribers, and her set of lithographs is still held by the Royal Collection Trust. The lithographer Louis Haghe worked with Roberts to turn the original sketches into high-quality lithographs, which were then published in the 1840s by the printer F. G. Moon in London. David Roberts RA RBA was a Scottish painter known for his Orientalist pictures. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841. -
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. -
Terrence Cuneo (1907 - 1996)
Eastern Counties Otter Hounds (1971)
Lithograph 56 x 80 cm The meet at Guist Bridge, River Wensum, 31 August 1970. Terence Tenison Cuneo CVO OBE RGI FGRA trained at the Slade School of Art. He worked for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War and also produced anti-Nazi propaganda. He most known for his postwar pictures of railways, locomotives, and industry. He was the official artist for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Condition: very good. Unsigned proof copy. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other hunting pictures. -
Leslie Macdonald "Max" Gill (1884 - 1947)
A Map of the Colne Valley Cloth District (1946)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 32 x 48 cm Signed in the plate and dated 1946. Produced for Huddersfield and District Woollen Export Group. Gill's vibrant and detailed map depicts the Colne Valley District. The Colne Valley was a loom-weaving area which played a significant role in the development of the Industrial Revolution when water-powered textile mills were brought in. Born in Brighton, Max Gill was the second son in a family of thirteen children; his elder brother was Eric Gill, the typographer and sculptor. Both Gills exhibited significant talent at a young age. Max Gill’s first map was made for a school map-drawing project following which he entered maps into competitions in boys’ magazines. In 1903 he moved to London as assistant to the ecclesiastical architects Sir Charles Nicholson and Hubert Corlette. By 1908 he had started his own architectural practice, but in 1909 Sir Edwin Lutyens commissioned Gill to paint a “wind dial” map for Nashdom, a large house in Buckinghamshire. The wind dial was set over the fireplace and attached to a weather vane on the roof, allowing the occupant to know the direction of the wind from the comfort of the house. He produced seven further wind dials including for Lutyens’s Lindisfarne Castle and for the Allhusen Room at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although Gill continued to practice as an architect, Frank Pick commissioned him to create seven pictorial maps for the Underground, the first being the famous 1913 ‘Wonderground Map of London Town.’ In 1917 he joined the Imperial War Graves Commission’s headstone design committee, designing the typeface and regimental badges. Gill’s memorials for the fallen in the First World War include for Balliol and Worcester Colleges and Christ Church in Oxford. During the 1920s and 30s Gill undertook many commercial commissions for advertising materials. The Empire Marketing Board and Shell-Mex as well as further maps for the Underground. He designed in 1922 the first diagrammatic map of the Underground which provided the foundation for Beck’s more famous map. By the 1930s his major works were murals. Those of the Arctic and Antarctic on the ceilings of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge are beautiful, but the most impressive is the map of the North Atlantic in the first-class dining room of the Queen Mary (maiden voyage: 1936, now moored at Long Beach, California). During the Second World War he created a series of propaganda posters for the Ministry of Information. Condition: very good. In new hand-finished frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other decorative maps. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
A Pair of Heraldic Designs
Watercolour 49 x 70 cm Signed lower right. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally very good; short repaired edge tear (barely visible) to left side. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Motorcyclist
Pencil on tracing paper 20 x 32 cm Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Stagecoach
Pencil 32 x 53 cm Signed 'Spink' lower right. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
H. Fluiss
Cotherstone with stud groom "Wilson" (1862)
Watercolour 30 x 39 cm A late-nineteenth century watercolour depicting Cotherstone, the British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from September 1841 to July 1843, he ran eleven times and won eight races. Provenance: Christie's South Kensington (2002). Condition: generally very good; couple of faint spots to sky. Frame in "country house" condition. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Reginald Hallward (1858-1948)
Design for wall painting at Werneth Church, Oldham
Watercolour with highlights 22 x 16 cm 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) R.A. (Expelled)
Lady Margaret Hall
Screenprint 46 x 27 cm Signed, titled, and numbered 42/175 in pencil. A screenprint of the cupola atop Lady Margaret Hall's Talbot Building. Reflected architecture is one of Neiland’s most recurring themes. Neiland's work is widely exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide including, in Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery London, The Collections of the British Council, and the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is represented by the Redfern Gallery and has had numerous shows internationally, including at the Galerie Belvedere in Singapore, who represent him in Singapore and the Far East. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Lady Margaret Hall. -
James Redaway (1797 - 1858)
Eton from the Locks
Hand-coloured engraving 27 x 28 cm Redaway's view of Eton College, seen from the locks on the River Thames. James Redaway was a nineteenth-century engraver, principally of landscapes and architectural subjects. Condition: some staining to lower half of print. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Heraldic Design
Watercolour 51 x43 cm Signed lower right. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist.
