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  • Laurence Dunn (1910 - 2006)

    SS Hesleyside

      Pen, ink, and watercolour 6 x 16 cm Provenance: an album of works by the artist. The Hesleyside was a steamer built in 1912. In 1933, as Dunn notes in pen, it was bought by a Greek company and rechristened the SS Kymas. She was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1940. Laurence Dunn was a well-known British marine artist and writer known for his depictions of ships. He grew up in Devon, where he practised drawing passing ships, and went on to study at the Central School of Art. He then worked for shipbuilding firm John I. Thornycroft & Company Limited, where he contributed to the design of the Royal Yacht. During the Second World War, Dunn worked in naval intelligence. In the early 1960s, he created many line drawings of Atlantic ocean liners. Upon his death in 2006, the World Ship Society published the following obituary: DUNN, Laurence. [December 15 2006 — Lloyds List] Many readers will be saddened by the death of well-known marine artist and writer Laurence Dunn in his 97th year. A man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic. Our sympathies go to his wife Jennifer, who provided succour to the many ship lovers who beat a path to the welcoming door of their Gravesend home. 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 Laurence Dunn.
  • Laurence Dunn (1910 - 2006)

    SS Beryl

      Pen, ink, and watercolour 6 x 16 cm Provenance: an album of works by the artist. The Beryl was a small coastal cargo steamer which was built in Scotland in 1893. She was renamed the SS Fodhla in 1915. Laurence Dunn was a well-known British marine artist and writer known for his depictions of ships. He grew up in Devon, where he practised drawing passing ships, and went on to study at the Central School of Art. He then worked for shipbuilding firm John I. Thornycroft & Company Limited, where he contributed to the design of the Royal Yacht. During the Second World War, Dunn worked in naval intelligence. In the early 1960s, he created many line drawings of Atlantic ocean liners. Upon his death in 2006, the World Ship Society published the following obituary: DUNN, Laurence. [December 15 2006 — Lloyds List] Many readers will be saddened by the death of well-known marine artist and writer Laurence Dunn in his 97th year. A man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic. Our sympathies go to his wife Jennifer, who provided succour to the many ship lovers who beat a path to the welcoming door of their Gravesend home. 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 Laurence Dunn.
  • Richard Bankes Harraden (1778 - 1862)

    Christ's College, Cambridge

      Engraving 15 x 22 cm A nineteenth-century view of Christ's College, Cambridge, complete with two academics and a street-sweeper. 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: generally very good; a little discolouration to paper; in handsome washlined mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Christ's College, Cambridge.
  • Student of the National Art Training School (now Royal College of Art)

    Decorative Vase

      Gouache 40 x 26 cm Stamped 'ESK' ('Examined South Kensington) to reverse. This gouache study of a vase was made by a Royal College of Art (then known as the National Art Training School) student for their examinations. Condition: generally very good; a little discolouration to paper. In attractive frame made from period moulding. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Gordon Davey (1912 - 1991)

    Isle of Man

    Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm Condition: fair. Backed to linen. Areas of time staining as visible in photographs. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters.
  • 'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907 - 1992)

    Samuel: poète du verbe et de l'image (1992)

      Original vintage poster 95 x 65 cm This poster advertises an exhibition of Samuel's work, entitled 'Samuel: poet of word and image' and held in Grenoble in 1992, the year of the artist's death. It features Samuel's 1987 Au Vrai Sommet ('To the True Summit') as its image; the lone figure gazing out into the mountainous blue, gaunt and clad only in a loincloth, seems to represent Samivel's outstanding but isolated work. Samivel was a writer, an artist, a photographer, an explorer and more. In 1948 he accompanied Paul Émile Victor on the first French Greenland expedition, making three documentary films in the process. His friends included Théodore Monod and Gilbert André - the latter the mayor of Bonneval-sur-Arc and one of the founders of the Vanoise National Park - and with them and others he spent his whole life aiming for the protection of the imperilled countryside. The graphic artist side of him had a life-long fascination with high mountains, and his illustrated books and series of posters of the French Alps have long been popular. Condition: generally very good; faint mark to left hand side level with person; small edge crease to left. 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, Cambridge.
  • Kleinwalsertal Allgauer Alpen

      Original vintage poster 74 x 50 cm This bright 1970s poster encourages us to tour to Austria and ride the cable car up to the Kanzelwand (a mountain on the border between Vorarlberg, Austria and Bavaria, Germany). Here, a charming family of hikers gaze up at the cable car as it crosses overhead. Condition: generally very good; one or two little creases to bottom. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Hans Schilter (1918 - 1988)

    Zentralschweiz (1951)

    Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm This marvellous poster encourages travel to Central Switzerland - a land of gently snow-capped mountains and wide blue lakes. Hans Schilter was a Swiss artist known for his poster designs. Condition: generally very good; a few repaired short edge tears and small repaired missing area approx 2cm x 1 cm top left corner. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)

    Royal Ascot (1935)

      Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm A text poster advertising Southern Railway as a means of travelling to and from Royal Ascot. Graham Sutherland OM was an English artist known for his romantic, abstract landscapes and portraits of public figures, including Churchill and the Queen Mother. Sutherland spent the 1920s mostly making landscape prints, but, following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s branched out into watercolours. He also undertook a few commercial commissions for posters, working for London Transport, Shell and others. He served as an official war artist in the Second World War, painting industrial scenes on the British home front. After the war he worked in oils and explored figurative painting. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage London Transport posters.
  • Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

    Come Out to Live (1936)

      Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm A copy of this poster is held by the London Transport Museum. Published by the Baynard Press. Nash's poster encourages us to buy a season ticket in order to travel more cheaply by train. A modernist suburb is juxtaposed with a monochrome photograph of the Royal Exchange in the heart of the City of London, suggesting that by travelling in from suburbia we can "come out to live". Paul Nash was a modernist, surrealist British artist. He is known for his modernist landscapes and work as a war artist. He studied at the Slate School of Art and soon focused his work on landscapes, especially those containing ruins; he went on to produce some of the most recognisable artworks of the First World War, mostly depicting war-torn landscapes. Condition: very 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 Klein (1918 - 2005)

    Spain - Fly TWA

      Original vintage poster 102 x 63 cm Klein's poster for Trans World Airlines (TWA) advertises flights to Spain. His design features two matadors in rich traditional address, in a stadium where a bullfight is presumably about to take place; a TWA plane flies overhead. David Klein was an American artist notable for his posters. He designed posters for the US Army, many and various Broadway productions, Trans World Airlines, and many more commercial clients. In the late 1950s and early 1960s his travel posters became iconic images of the era of commercial aeroplane travel. One of his posters was added to the MoMa's collection in 1957. Condition: good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Pierre Tairraz (1933 - 2000)

    Chamonix - Mont Blanc - France

    Original vintage poster 100 x 60 cm A view of the Téléphérique de la vallée Blanche cable car over Mont Blanc entices us to book a skiing trip to Chamonix. Pierre Tairraz was the fourth in line of the Tairraz family of mountain photographers, following in the footsteps of his father George, his father George, and his father Joseph. Between 1857 and 2000, four photographers, from father to son, invent and transmit the art of mountain photography. Their family name is Tairraz. Pierre was an exceptional climber and worked for 40 years photographing mountains, particularly the French Alps. Condition: generally very good; a few little edge tears and a slight marginal loss to top (all of which will disappear under a mount when framed). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage skiing posters.
  • John Finnie (born 1935)

    Waterways (1965)

      Original vintage poster 102 x 63 cm Overprinted 'This is a reproduction of a poster designed for London Transport'. This was overprinted for a period on copies of London Transport posters (produced on the normal production line) that were sold in what is now the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Finnie's poster promotes travel on London's waterways, and indicates that said waterways are in easy reach of London Underground stations (here, Warwick Road). John Finnie was an illustrator and designer who trained at Leicester College of Art. He was elected a Member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in 1958, and then worked as a freelance artist, designing posters for the British Ship Building Conference, The Post Office, Shell, London Transport, and many other notable companies. From 1976 he began producing glass engraving designs. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage London Transport posters.
  • The French Alps - To See France, Go by Train (1966)

      Original vintage poster 100 x 66 cm This French Railways poster encourages tourism to the French Alps, where the railway views are (and always have been) particularly charming. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Air France Vacances - Allemagne

      Original vintage poster 100 x 66 cm This Air France poster encourages French tourists to travel to Germany. Pictured is the Römer in Frankfurt, a medieval building which has served as the town's city hall for over six hundred years. Condition: generally very good; a few little edge creases top right. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • 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.
  • Austria Österreich - St Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee

      Original vintage poster 61 x 43 cm St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut is an Austrian market town east of Salzburg, named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg. This sunny poster encourages us to visit - and perhaps to lunch by Lake Wolfgangsee. Condition: generally very good; a few very small edge losses to right hand. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters.
  • Mabel Oliver Rae (1868 - 1956)

    Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford

    Etching 23 x 15 cm Hand-signed in pencil lower left, and titled in pencil lower right. Initialled 'MR' in plate lower left. The eminent Tom Tower, as seen from Pembroke Square, with the college crest below. 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: very good; mounted to board; some time staining to extreme margins (to be hidden under mount). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Christ Church.
  • Back Them Up! - Buy Savings Certificates

      Original vintage poster 39 x 25 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, London and the Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Staford & Co. Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham. This WW2 poster encourages us to support the Allied war effort and 'Back Them Up' by buying War Savings Certificates (government-issued debt securities which helped to finance the war). Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters.
  • Common Land Applications for Registration (1969)

      Lithograph 37 x 25 cm Prepared by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Central Office of Information. Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Multi Machine Plates Ltd. "COMMON LAND: APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION of Land, Rights and Ownership under the Commons Registration Act 1965 MUST BE IN BY 2ND JANUARY 1970. DO NOT WAIT - APPLY NOW - land and rights not registered may be lost." The Commons Registration Act 1965 (c. 64) is an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom enacted in 1965 that concerns the registration of rights to common land, town greens, and village greens in England and Wales. Condition: generally good; a few old creases and two small tape stains. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters.

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