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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. -
T B Miller St John's College, Oxford (1908)
Watercolour 35 x 25 cm Signed and dated 'after ? 1908' lower left and titled lower right in pencil (in artist's hand). Condition: generally very good; mounted to card. 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 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. -
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. -
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. -
Hills and Saunders
St John's College, Oxford (1925)
Silver gelatin photograph with extensive hand-decoration of mount 43 x 49 cm A photograph taken of St John's College students and tutors in 1925. Hills & Saunders was one of the leading Victorian social photography firms. Robert Hills and Henry Saunders started the firm together in 1860 and had studios in Oxford, Cambridge, and London during the course of their partnership, as well as near certain army bases and public schools. They were given a Royal Warrant in 1867. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more St John's pictures. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
St John's College, Oxford (1675)
Engraving 32 x 41 cm Loggan's view of St John's 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: generally very good; mostly-even all-over toning save to extreme margins. 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. -
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. -
Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA ARWS (1895 - 1982)
The Dining Hall, St Anne's College
Lithograph 33 x 46 cm A lithograph of St Anne's, from a drawing by Roland Vivian Pitchforth. The artist captures the Dining Hall of the college on a blustery day. The modernist dining hall was built in 1959. Pitchforth's drawing was reproduced as a lithograph in 1962, 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. Roland Vivian Pitchforth was an English painter, teacher and an official British war artist during the Second World War. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-1999) Magdalen College Oxford
Unsigned proof print 25x20cm From Casson’s ever-popular Oxford 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. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Henry Winstanley (1644 - 1703)
Rycote House, Oxfordshire
Engraving 19 x 44 cm Rycote House, Oxfordshire, was a Tudor (and later Georgian) country house. The house was built in the 16th century, and in 1920, after a period of decline, the extensive stables were converted into the present Rycote House. Condition: generally very good; some age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other architectural drawings. -
Robert Tavener (1920-2004) Magdalen College, Oxford (artist’s proof) Signed Screenprint 69×48 cm (27.1×18.8 inches) Framed in a gilt frame 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. -
Robert Murdoch Wright (1889-1962)
Magdalen Tower, Magdalen College, Oxford (1910)
Oil on board 35 x 26 cm Signed and dated 1910 Murdoch Wright is best known for his scenes of Egypt, where he travelled and painted widely, see for example this pair sold at Christies. Here he captures Edwardian Oxford with elegantly dressed ladies crossing Magdalen Bridge. Condition: very good; recently cleaned and revarnished. -
Richard Beer (1928-2017)
Wadham College, Oxford (1964-65)
Colour etching and Aquatint on Velin Arches by Editions Alecto. 59.8x40cm (23.5×15.7 inches) Proof Print A copy of this print is in the Government Art Collection. 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. -
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.
