Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)

Brasenose College, Oxford

Lithograph 30 x 24 cm Casson's view of Brasenose, complete with many a bicycle. 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 young Charles III 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. Condition: very good; mounted to board. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Richard Bankes Harraden (1778 - 1862)

Gate of Honour, Caius College (1810)

Etching 13 x 20 cm A nineteenth-century view of Christ's College, Cambridge, complete with Members of the College and a hound on the lawn. 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'. Byrne was a London-born etcher and landscape painter, who was taught by her father, the etcher William Byrne. She and her father contributed etchings to the 'Magna Britannia' and 'Britannia Depicta', books illustrating the most interesting views in various English counties, published by Samuel Lysons in the late 1810s. Condition: very good; later hand coloured. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Gonville and Caius.

Brasenose College, Oxford lithograph by Hugh Casson

Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)

Brasenose College, Oxford

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge etching after Richard Bankes Harraden

Richard Bankes Harraden (1778 - 1862)

Gate of Honour, Caius College (1810)

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