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David Gentleman (born 1930)
Wolfson College, Oxford (1976)
Lithograph 33 x 46 cm A view of Wolfson College by David Gentleman. The modernist college emerges from between lush greenery and a bright blue sky. Gentleman produced this view in 1975, and it was published a year later 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. David Gentleman is an English artist. He studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash, and produced several views of Oxford colleges for the Oxford Almanac. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gavin Pomeroy (born 1929)
Wolfson College, Oxford
Watercolour 17 x 25 cm Signed and dated lower right. A watercolour of the modernist Wolfson College, featuring a 1970s mint-green car. Founded in 1965, its main building (designed by Powell and Moya Architects) was completed in 1974. Pomeroy portrays it in winter, with the cloudy sky and bare trees melding with the grey of the modernist facade. William Gavin Ingram Pomeroy was born in Newlyn, Cornwall. From 1947 he studied architecture under Geoffrey Bazeley, and later became a lecturer for the Plymouth School of Architecture. He became the senior lecturer in architecture at what is now Plymouth University and retired in 1999. 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 more views of Wolfson College. -
Provost Richard Lynch Cotton Caricature
A rare specimen of the Cotton-ia Worcester-iensis (not to be found) in the Botanic Gardens Oxford
Pen ink watercolour and photographic collage 19.5 x 16 cm By repute, found in the rooms of Keble at the Hermitage Hotel in Eastbourne after his death, together with another watercolour of a ‘Ritualistic Priest’ also for sale. Please contact us for further information. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Gloucester College, Oxford (now Worcester College) (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Worcester College's predecessor, Gloucester College. Gloucester College was founded in 1283 by the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester as a place of study for 13 monks. The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the closure of the College, which was eventually re-founded as Worcester College in 1714. Pieter van der Aa's engraving comes after an earlier one by David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter, when the site was still known as Gloucester. 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. -
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George Hollis (1793 - 1842)
Worcester College Beaumont Street, Oxford (1823)
Engraving 25 x 32 cm A handsome engraving of Worcester College from a Beaumont Street still under construction. The street was laid out in the 1820s and 1830s in the Regency style and acts as a charming approach to Worcester's facade. George Hollis was a well-known Oxford-born artist and engraver. He studied art and worked primarily in Oxford. Many of his engravings, which often depicted the colleges, were published by James Ryman, a print-seller on the High Street. Hollis' views were published separately in a single volume in 1839. Condition: good. Mounted to board; vertical crease; in antique frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Worcester College, Oxford. -
Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876-1964)
Worcester College, Oxford
Watercolour 26 x 38 cm Signed lower right. Gotch's watercolour highlights the verdant lawns and leafy foliage of one of Oxford's greenest and most beautiful colleges. 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. Provenance: detailed on label to reverse. Condition: generally very good, painted on 'rough' paper; signed and titled to label. -
after Peter Brook (1927 - 2009)
Wytham - Oxford Almanack 1975
Lithograph 70 x 48 cm A lithograph of Wytham, a characterful and historic village north-west of Oxford. The original painting hangs in the Ashmolean Museum. Brook's painting was reproduced as a lithograph in 1975 to be published in 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 James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and Michael Oelman. Peter Brook RBA was an English artist best known for his landscape paintings; he was nicknamed "The Pennine Landscape Painter". He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1962. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other general views of Oxford.
