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Henrik Bloch (born 1931)
Bakken in Wonderful Copenhagen (1965)
Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Bakken (short for Dyrehavsbakken) is the world's oldest amusement park, located just out of Copenhagen. This poster was designed to promote tourism to Copenhagen and Denmark more widely, and features a pierrot clown smiling above a happy crowd of Bakken visitors. Condition: generally very good; a few very short edge tears and a little soft creasing bottom right. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
Derek Wicrow
The Telecinema - Telekinema - National Film Theatre Southbank (1957)
Pencil drawing, squared for transfer. 40x51cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. The Telecinema was built for the 1951 Festival of Britain, situated between Waterloo Station and the Royal Festival Hall. Whilst press releases referred to the Telecinema, the outside of the building proclaimed Telekinema. Wells Coates were the architect, creating - in the words of Today's Cinema - "A fly-away linear design [with a ] gay façade and bold modern stare". Seating 410 people it was the first cinema in Britain with both 3D sound - provided by an array of speakers behind the screen and allowing the sound to come from the direction of the person speaking - and 3D vision. It was demolished in 1957 when the National Film Theatre moved to its current location - renamed in 2007 as BFI Southbank.
The interior of the Telecinema
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Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Ducks for Beverly Nichols' Cats' ABC
30x21cm Pen and ink Dated 8 vi 1982 Sayer illustrated Beverley Nichols' 'Cats' A.B.C.' and we are delighted to present some of his preparatory drawings here. Search for 'Sayer' in our stock to see more of these utterly charming illustrations - mostly of cats. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Two punched holes. For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. -
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Rabbits for Beverly Nichols' Cats' ABC
30x21cm Pen and ink Dated 8 vi 1982 Sayer illustrated Beverley Nichols' 'Cats' A.B.C.' and we are delighted to present some of his preparatory drawings here. Search for 'Sayer' in our stock to see more of these utterly charming illustrations - mostly of cats. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. -
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Tree for Beverly Nichols' Cats' ABC
30x21cm Pen and ink Dated 26 vii 1982 Sayer illustrated Beverley Nichols' 'Cats' A.B.C.' and we are delighted to present some of his preparatory drawings here. Search for 'Sayer' in our stock to see more of these utterly charming illustrations - mostly of cats. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. -
Louis Osman FRIBA (1914 - 1996)
Design for the Restoration of the 'Bird Cage' Arbour, Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire
Mixed media, including pen, ink, watercolour, and gold leaf 108 x 63 cm Provenance: the artist's daughter. In 1958 Osman was commissioned to advise on the restoration of a metal arbour, originally designed in 1708 by Robert Blackwell for the grounds of Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire. The arbour is known as the 'Bird Cage' and was originally painted in a dreamy array of vivid colours; Osman extensively researched Blackwell's work and consulted his original plans for the metalwork in order to restore the arbour to its former glory. The paint was stripped and the iron repainted as per Blackwell's original scheme. The ironwork specialists George Lister & Sons Ltd worked with Osman on the project. This large design features watercolour and gold leaf to illustrate the embellishments Osman had in mind. Osman was as much an artist as an architect. This is likely a portfolio piece from his time studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is as such a piece of architectural history as well as a beautiful Osman design. Osman was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group) by the Bartlett, and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson - we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled coffin that holds the copy of the Magna Carta on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. Condition: generally very good; one or two small brown spots to periphery. In artist's original lead-edged frame. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
H Clark
Design for a Country Residence (1925)
Pencil and wash 36 x 54 cm An excellent 1925 design for a country house. Clark uses a wash to depict the warm red of the bricks in his design. Condition: mostly very good; old, soft crease to top left. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more architectural designs. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for a late Renaissance stone staircase (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this architectural design for a late Renaissance stone staircase. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for a Departmental Store (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this architectural design for a modernist department store. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Design for an Illuminated Panel of Stained Glass in a Private House (1994)
Watercolour 10 x 15.5 cmSigned and dated verso.
This design for a domestic window in a Bristol house was the second commission Gray received from this client. Having previously created a panel of eight squares featuring red floral designs, Gray was now faced with the challenge of another eight panel series, this time of fruits, which the client wanted to look as natural as possible. Gray succeeded in completing this effect, the screen featuring 8 bordered roundels containing apples, grapes, pineapple, starfruit, melon, bananas, pears, and citrus fruits.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.27. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Norman Clayton Hadlow Nisbet ARIBA
Design for Fairfield House, Droxford, Hampshire (c. 1910)
Watercolour and pencil 33 x 51 cm Signed and extensively inscribed. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1910. A fine design for an Edwardian country house in England by Norman Nisbet ARIBA, an architect who at the time was practising at 45 Jewry Street, Winchester. The house still stands today, although it is subject to proposals for extension and conversion to a hotel. Condition: very good. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Design for fruit bowls
Watercolour and pencil 38 x 56 cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale. With notes by the artist in pencil upper right. Two richly-coloured fruit bowl designs by Hennes in watercolour, surrounded by various other bowl designs sketched in pencil. Hilary Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art, and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple lived in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London, and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as 'The Living World' and 'Boff's Book of Gardening'. Condition: generally 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. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for Modernist Brutalist University Institute I (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this design for a university's brutalist building. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for Modernist Brutalist University Institute II (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this design for a university's brutalist building. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for Modernist Brutalist University Institute III (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this design for a university's brutalist building. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for Modernist Brutalist University Institute IV (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this design for a university's brutalist building. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for Modernist dental surgery (1956)
Watercolour on wove 77 x 55 cm Signed and dated 1956. Hards was educated at Brixton School of Building and Woolwich Polytechnic between 1948 and 1956, during which period he produced some very competent work, including this rather fun modernist design for a dentist's surgery. Brixton School of Building was incorporated into the Polytechnic of the South Bank - now London South Bank University. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. Condition: some edge wear and isolated spots - see photographs. Stamped and marked with 'Brixton School of Building' stamp. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edmund J Thring (1906 - 1985)
Design for St Nicholas House, High Street, Bristol
Gouache 46 x 54 cm Signed lower left and inscribed 'Alec F French & Partners, Architects, Bristol' (home to the Commercial Union Group and remodelled in 1959 by Alec French and partners). An architectural drawing of St Nicholas House, a 1930s Art Deco building on the corner of St Nicholas Street and High Street in the heart of Bristol. It was originally built as a banking headquarters, and is recognisable for its curved facade. Today St Nicholas House is a co-working space owned by The Office Group; the interiors have been remodelled in an Art Deco-inspired style, in honour of the building's architectural origins. Edmund J Thring was an architectural perspectivist who produced over 2,500 perspectives in his lifetime. He spent much of the Second WorId War in the Photographic Reconnaissance Interpretation Unit at RAF Nuneham Park, interpreting aerial photographs and making models. In 'A History of Architectural Model Making in Britain', David Lund notes that Thring was the chief instructor for the hundred or so recruits in the model-making department. He was described as ‘a sweetly patient man with a merciless eye and inflexible standards of quality’ who pushed his recruits hard. The team made over four hundred models for the D-Day invasion, and a thousand further models over the rest of the war. Pilots bombing German warships in Norwegian fjords found maps almost useless, so carried cardboard models of the topography in their cockpits. Thring also served with the Observer Corps, scanning the English Channel from the Sussex coast. Following the war, he began taking commissions for architectural perspectives (there were plenty of these available on account of the extensive postwar rebuilding works). We are grateful to the artist’s daughter for providing this information. Condition: generally very good, mounted to board, old time-staining to very margins under mount area. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for our other architectural drawings. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Design for Stained Glass Panel in a Private House (1990)
Watercolour 14.5 x 7.5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
This design for a staircase window in a private house features the owner’s favourite flowers, including Daffodils, Irises and Poppies, and is typical of Gray’s secular designs which were often highly colourful and often floral-centric. The window was installed in 1991.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.29. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Design for Stained Glass Panel in a Private House (1978)
Watercolour 10 x 8 cm Signed and dated verso.This design is for a window commemorating Arthur Henry Edmond Esq., of Ranelagh, 50 Russell Road, Moor Park, Northwood, Middlesex, who held the position of High Sheriff of Greater London between 1973-4. The Clan from whom the Arthurs family descends began among the ancient Dalriadan kingdom of the west coast of Scotland. Their name comes from the Celtic personal name, Arthur, which is of various and often disputed etymology. The personal name Arthur may be derived from some early cognate of the Gaelic “art” and the Welsh “arth”, meaning “bear” and may indicate early Celtic worship of the bear or one who has a high regard for the bear’s virtuous qualities. The Latin motto, ‘Impelle obstantia’ (meaning, 'Thrust aside obstacles’) would originally have acted a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first appeared in coast of arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. The office of High Sheriff of Greater London was created in 1965 and granted armorial bearings 1966. The blazon of the arms, as depicted here is: ‘Gules, two seaxes in saltire argent, pommels and hilts or, between in chief a Saxon Crown or and in base a horse courant argent’.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Richard Beer (1928 - 2017)
Dieppe Cathedral
Oil on canvas 66 x 76 cm A mountaintop cathedral and surrounding houses; broad blue sky fills the rest of the canvas. This oil painting is a fantastic example of Beer's focus on architecture, the central and recurring theme of his pictorial idiom. Born in London in 1928, just too late to serve in the Second World War, Richard Beer studied between 1945 - 1950 at the Slade School. Subsequently, a French Government scholarship allowed him to spend time in Paris at Atelier 17, working under Stanley William Hayter (1901 - 1988), one of the most significant print makers of the 20th Century – having spent the War in New York, advising as a camofleur, Hayter only returned to Paris in 1950. Subsequently Beer studied at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. Working for John Cranko, choreographer for the Royal Ballet, Beer designed the sets and costumes for his The Lady and the Fool at Covent Garden, subsequently working for him following his move in 1961 to Stuttgart Ballet. Additionally he produced book illustrations and designed book jackets. Beer later taught print-making at the Chelsea School of Art, where he was a popular teacher. Probably his greatest work was a collaboration with John Betjeman to produce a portfolio of prints of ten Wren Churches in the City for Editions Alecto, copies of which are in The Government Art Collection. That collection contains a total of 54 prints by Beer, and the Tate Gallery’s collection holds seven. His Oxford series was also produced for Editions Alecto as was a series of predominantly architectural views in Southern Europe. Most of his prints are of architectural subjects. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views by Richard Beer. -
Dig for Victory Now
Norman Wilson, c1940
Dig for Victory Now Lithograph 18x12cm (7×4.7 inches), price includes frame. When rationing was at its height, what could be more appealing than a basket of fresh vegetables. What more incentive could be required to Dig For Victory Now? If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Dig for Victory over Want World War II public information
11x18cm for His Majesty's Stationery Office HMSO On gummed paper Printed on gummed paper, this was designed to be widely propagated, so that the public information message would not get lost. With food having to be shipped over the U-Boat infested Atlantic putting sailors' lives and ships at risk, every scrap of food that could be grown at home saved lives and allowed munitions to be transported instead. Therefore the Government started a large public information campaign to Dig for Victory - encouraging people to dig up their gardens and grow food. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Attributed to Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855)
Dinan Tour de l’Horloge (Dinan Clock Tower)
Watercolour 28 x 21 cm A spirited watercolour of Dinan, Brittany. Dinan's famous clock tower looks over a French street scene: men, women, and children weave through the town's half-timbered houses, shops, and ateliers. The characterful mediaeval stonework and architecture of the town are paramount, and the artist adds a bright blue hue to his depiction of Dinan's roofs. Dinan is a walled medieval Breton town and commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of northwestern France. Enclosed by nearly three kilometres of ramparts, the town and its 14th-century castle proudly overlook the Rance river. Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter famous for his watercolour landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Watercolour Society (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 the Society's President. In 1824 he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon, alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable. Examples of his work are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and other major museums in Britain. Condition: good. Some spotting to sky; handsomely framed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Samuel Agar (1773 - 1858) after John Uwins (1782 - 1857)
Doctors in Divinity, Esquire Beadle, and Yeoman Beadle (1815)
Hand-coloured aquatint 25 x 30 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). An engraving of two Doctors in Divinity and two beadles (administrative assistants to the Chancellor and Proctors of the University) from Ackermann's ''A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings''. The four figures walk forward with ceremonial accoutrements, likely to a graduation ceremony. Thomas Uwins RA RWS was a British painter in watercolour and oil, and a book illustrator. He became a full member of the Old Watercolour Society and a Royal Academician, and held a number of high-profile art appointments including the librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria and the Keeper of the National Gallery. In the late 1790s he began producing work for Ackermann''s collections. John Samuel Agar was an English portrait painter and engraver, who exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1806 and at the British Institution until 1811. He was at one time president of the Society of Engravers. Rudolph Ackermann published many of his engravings. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: good. Some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Don't leave it all to your fuel watcher
Keep on helping him to save HEAT STEAM POWER LIGHT Lithographic poster c. 1940 for HMSO by W R Royle & Son and issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power 38x25cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Donald Brun (1909-1999)
Primavera in Svizzera (1945) Lithographic poster Printed by Swiss National Tourist Office, Zurich 40×25 inches This poster won a Swiss Poster award in 1945 Donald Brun produced his famous series of posters for Switzerland as global travel became more possible. Here a Swiss steamer boat is seen crossing Lake Geneva (presumably) as a lamb celebrates spring, cavorting with a bee and a butterfly. -
Donald Brun (1909-1999)
Swissair to Japan
Lithographic poster 40x25 inches If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Douglas L Hadden (British, 20th century) Design for a Marquetry Panels for furniture for Geo. M Hammer with castle
25x18cm Watercolour signed and dated 1927 Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical furniture. Their lift-top school desks are particularly well regarded, and always carried their brass name plate. Hammer were renowned for their interior woodwork, they were commissioned to undertake the choir stalls in Sir Basil Spence’s ground-breaking Coventry Cathedral. Dick Russell (brother of Gordon Russell and who worked for his brother before World War Two) famously designed the chairs to be used by the congregation; as all-wood stacking chairs they were innovative at the time. As senior designer, Hadden was at the heart of the Coventry project. Hadden was educated at the Wycombe School of Art and quickly rose to the position of chief designer at Burkles, early in his career. During the World War Two he worked as an air warden in Cowley and later within the Royal Artillery, before returning to work for the Italian firm BIANOS, helping to shift its production of spitfires propellers back to peace-time wood-work. For his 7th and finale job he worked as chief designer for one of the largest and oldest firms in Britain, Geo. M Hammer. With a wide experience of designing furniture to a high standard, Hadden worked for colleges, universities, schools, libraries, monasteries and nunneries, churches and abbeys, cathedrals, synagogues and private houses. In addition to furnishings, Hadden took pride in producing fine pianos for many of these residences. Through Geo M Hammer, Hadden's designs can be found across the British Isles today, with many further appearing in America. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition : Good. Wrapped in transparent sleeve for protection. -
Douglas L Hadden (British, 20th century) Design for Poster/Showcard 'Furniture of Distinction'
33x20cm Pen and ink c. 1930 Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical furniture. Their lift-top school desks are particularly well regarded, and always carried their brass name plate. Hammer were renowned for their interior woodwork, they were commissioned to undertake the choir stalls in Sir Basil Spence’s ground-breaking Coventry Cathedral. Dick Russell (brother of Gordon Russell and who worked for his brother before World War Two) famously designed the chairs to be used by the congregation; as all-wood stacking chairs they were innovative at the time. As senior designer, Hadden was at the heart of the Coventry project. Hadden was educated at the Wycombe School of Art and quickly rose to the position of chief designer at Burkles, early in his career. During the World War Two he worked as an air warden in Cowley and later within the Royal Artillery, before returning to work for the Italian firm BIANOS, helping to shift its production of spitfires propellers back to peace-time wood-work. For his 7th and finale job he worked as chief designer for one of the largest and oldest firms in Britain, Geo. M Hammer. With a wide experience of designing furniture to a high standard, Hadden worked for colleges, universities, schools, libraries, monasteries and nunneries, churches and abbeys, cathedrals, synagogues and private houses. In addition to furnishings, Hadden took pride in producing fine pianos for many of these residences. Through Geo M Hammer, Hadden's designs can be found across the British Isles today, with many further appearing in America. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition : Good. -
Douglas L Hadden (British, 20th century) Design for Poster/Showcard 'Attractive & Exclusive'
32x24cm Pen and ink c. 1930 Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical furniture. Their lift-top school desks are particularly well regarded, and always carried their brass name plate. Hammer were renowned for their interior woodwork, they were commissioned to undertake the choir stalls in Sir Basil Spence’s ground-breaking Coventry Cathedral. Dick Russell (brother of Gordon Russell and who worked for his brother before World War Two) famously designed the chairs to be used by the congregation; as all-wood stacking chairs they were innovative at the time. As senior designer, Hadden was at the heart of the Coventry project. Hadden was educated at the Wycombe School of Art and quickly rose to the position of chief designer at Burkles, early in his career. During the World War Two he worked as an air warden in Cowley and later within the Royal Artillery, before returning to work for the Italian firm BIANOS, helping to shift its production of spitfires propellers back to peace-time wood-work. For his 7th and finale job he worked as chief designer for one of the largest and oldest firms in Britain, Geo. M Hammer. With a wide experience of designing furniture to a high standard, Hadden worked for colleges, universities, schools, libraries, monasteries and nunneries, churches and abbeys, cathedrals, synagogues and private houses. In addition to furnishings, Hadden took pride in producing fine pianos for many of these residences. Through Geo M Hammer, Hadden's designs can be found across the British Isles today, with many further appearing in America. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition : Good. -
Samuel Sparrow (active 1770 - 1806) after Henry Barker (1774 - 1856)
Downing College, Cambridge (1812)
Engraving 31 x 43 cm A copy of this engraving is held by the British Museum. An early nineteenth-century engraving of Downing College, with building materials in the foreground and elegantly dressed figures, including two scholars, strolling in the College's grounds. The Cambridge University Almanack was an annual almanac published by the Cambridge University Press. It traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Condition: generally good, except loss/damage to left hand side visible in photograph. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Dr William Crotch (1775-1847) Eton College Chapel
13x20cm Pencil and colour wash Extensively inscribed to reverse Dated 10.20am August 1 1832 Provenance: Spink, King Street, London Composer and organist (a child prodigy, playing the organ of the Chapel Royal at the age of three-and-a-half) Crotch is most famous for probably beint the composter of the Westminster Chimes - struck by Big Ben inter alia. In 1797 he became Heatehr Professor of Music at Oxford University, becoming DMus in 1799. John Malchair, the musician and artist, became a friend whilst he was in Oxford, and so with his guidance Crotch took up sketching. He also took Malchair's habit of recording the date and time of his picture passing this habit to John Constable upon meeting him in London in 1805. He became first Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, a post he held for ten years until he resigned His works are well represented in many public and private collections. The Tate holds three of his works. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Anonymous
Draughts Eat Coal - Stop All Draughts! Save Fuel for Production
Lithographic poster 76 x 50cm Issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power Printed for HM Stationery Office by J Weiner Ltd, London WC1 Fuel was needed for production of munitions and machinery, as well as to drive the machinery. The population was therefore exhorted not to waste fuel. Successful Home Front propaganda posters, as Fougasse proved, needed to amuse the watcher; cartoonists were accordingly highly regarded for this task. -
Kerry Lee (1902 - 1988)
Dublin
Original vintage poster 103 x 64 cm A detailed and brightly-coloured map of Dublin by celebrated pictorial cartographer Kerry Lee, published by British Railways to encourage rail travel around the country. Kerry Lee produced war maps and military education images of aircraft during the Second World War. He founded the London firm Pictorial Maps in 1946 and published a Prospectus of Pictorial Maps of British cities, including Dublin. Condition: backed to linen; excellent. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Dugald Sutherland MacColl Brasenose College, Oxford
Pencil and Wash 24x31cm 44x51cm including frame, UK shipping only MacColl was Keeper of the Tate 1906-1911, and from 1911-1924 of the Wallace Collection. A more worked-up version of this painting appears in the Tate collection and may be seen on their website. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Paper lightly ripped, slight discolouration and some light staining to margins. -
Selina Thorp (born 1968)
View Through an Archway, Sienna (1993)
Pastel 47 x 26 cm A view of the Duomo di Siena. Sienna has been defined architecturally by this cathedral since it was built in mediaeval times; Thorp's view of it through an archway emphasises its status as a seen symbol of the city, an object of cultural, religious, and aesthetic significance. Selina Thorp was born in Leeds in 1968 and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. Much of her work focuses on architecture and landscape. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anon. Prospect of Durham from the River Wear
Watercolour 19th Century 30.5x45.5cm Bears signature 'J Varley' If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, backed to board and slight loss of colour. -
Edward W Sharland (1884-1967) - British Christ Church Cathedral Oxford interior
Etching 32x18cm Sharland was a Bristol-based artist who specialised in architectural views such as this, the interiors of cathedrals being a particular speciality. The British Museum holds copies of his cathedral interior etchings. -
E W Trick
Bridge of Sighs, St. John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour 24x18cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Earl's Court Exhibition Routemaster Slipboard Poster c1970
Screenprint poster 64x9cm Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT buses - the traditional red London bus with open platform and hop-on-hop-off facility. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Early Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window (1962)
Watercolour 27.5 x 9 cmA rare example of Gray’s early work, this design shows a more traditional approach to stained glass window design, something that Gray came to eschew in favour of a more modern style in much of her later work. This design was for a memorial window commemorating Rosemary Anstice, although its intended location is unknown.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
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Brian Bannatyne Lewis (1906 - 1991)
East Acton Station (1938)
Pen, ink and watercolour 70 x 50 cm Initialled and dated 28 2 38. A 1938 design for the new East Acton tube station, commissioned by the Great Western Railway (GWR) for its proposed western extension to the Central Line. The design's Art Deco lettering befits London Transport's aesthetic in the 1930s. Lewis brings his designs to life by including smartly-dressed characters entering and leaving the stations. The Central line opened in 1900, between Shepherd's Bush and Bank; it extended westwards to Ealing Broadway in 1920. Two years after the formation of London Transport in 1933, an extensive New Works Programme began, proposing a westwards extension of the line to Denham. Brian Lewis created designs for nine stations in early 1938, but the Second World War broke out before they could be built. By the time the extension had been built, Lewis was no longer chief architect of the GWR - the stations were modified and completed by Frederick Francis Charles Curtis instead. The extension to Greenford opened in 1947 and finally reached West Ruislip in 1948. Denham never actually became part of the tube line, owing to the establishment of the green belt. Brian Lewis was born in Tasmania, attended school in Melbourne, and subsequently obtained a Diploma in Architecture in 1928 from the University of Melbourne. He then moved to the UK to study at the Liverpool School of Architecture, winning scholarships in each of his three years of study to fund extensive European travel. He married a fellow Liverpool architectural student, Hilary Archer. After moving to London, he took up employment with the GWR in their architects’ office; he also lectured at a local polytechnic, and moonlighted with his wife at home on mainly residential commissions – rather different projects from the hotels and stations which GWR commissioned from him. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy of Arts, showing superb measured drawings of historic buildings. In the Second World War he enlisted with the Second Imperial Australian Force, serving in the Middle East, then transferred to the Royal Australian Engineers where he became a Captain. In 1943 he was sent to London to help GWR repair bomb damage. Lewis became Chief Architect of GWR in 1945 (following the retirement of the noted Percy Emerson Culverhouse), and the first Chair of Architecture at Melbourne University in 1947. He also became the consulting architect for the major buildings of the Australian National University in Canberra, producing an imaginative site plan and designing University House, which was awarded the Sulman medal in 1954. He also designed the Risdon Prison Complex in 1960. He retired in 1971 to paint watercolours and write his memoirs. Condition: generally very good; a few handling marks and two holes from filing. Handsomely framed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here to view the other station designs in the set. -
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. -
Richard Westmacott (1775 - 1856)
Edinburgh Castle (1800)
Watercolour 29 x 41 cm A watercolour depicting Edinburgh Castle. A Georgian couple gaze up at the immensity of Castle Rock, and the 11th-century fortress perched upon it. Richard Westmacott was British artist who primarily worked as a sculptor. Westmacott studied with his father, also named Richard Westmacott, at his studio in Mount Street, off Grosvenor Square in London, before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova. Upon his return to London in 1797, he established his own studio. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1839 and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1805, and a full academician in 1811. Condition: very good; handsomely framed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Captain of the Team Cat
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Dandy Boy Cat
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
