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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. -
Give Thanks by Saving (1945)
Original vintage poster 38 x 26 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, London, the Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh and the Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast. This patriotic poster, with Union Jack flying and VE Day bunting fluttering, encourages us to show our gratitude to the Allies (including the Soviet Union, whose flag is included amongst the rest of the Allied nations) by investing in the National Savings scheme during 'Thanksgiving Week' in September 1945. Condition: generally very good; pinhole to each top corner. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Richard Beer (1928 - 2017)
Worcester College, Oxford
Etching and aquatint 44 x 59 cm Titled and numbered 77/100 and signed lower right, all in pencil. The artist's view of Worcester College's facade, with the hall projecting on the left and the college chapel on the right. Beer's ability to capture the unique texture of Oxford's old stone is manifest. 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: generally very good; slight age toning to paper and to margins. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Worcester College. -
Charles E Brown (1896 - 1982)
Wellington Bomber
Silver gelatin photograph 20 x 25 cm The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led by Vickers-Armstrongs’ chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its geodetic airframe fuselage structure, which was principally designed by Barnes Wallis. Development had been started in response to Air Ministry Specification B.9/32, issued in the middle of 1932, for a bomber for the Royal Air Force. This specification called for a twin-engined day bomber capable of delivering higher performance than any previous design. Other aircraft developed to the same specification include the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and the Handley Page Hampden. During the development process, performance requirements such as for the tare weight changed substantially, and the engine used was not the one originally intended. The Wellington was used as a night bomber in the early years of the Second World War, performing as one of the principal bombers used by Bomber Command. During 1943, it started to be superseded as a bomber by the larger four-engined “heavies” such as the Avro Lancaster. The Wellington continued to serve throughout the war in other duties, particularly as an anti-submarine aircraft. It holds the distinction of having been the only British bomber that was produced for the duration of the war, and of having been produced in a greater quantity than any other British-built bomber. The Wellington remained as first-line equipment when the war ended, although it had been increasingly relegated to secondary roles. The Wellington was one of two bombers named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel with the Wellington; the two aircraft shared around 85% of their structural components. Many elements of the Wellington were also re-used in a civil derivative, the Vickers VC.1 Viking. Leslie Carr was a painter and poster designer from London. He served in the Tank Corps in the First World War and then became a professional artist, mainly producing maritime and architectural scenes. He designed posters for Southern Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, and British Railways (among others). Carr served as a fireman in the Second World War and was a part of several firemen artists’ exhibitions. Carr was a member of the Society of Marine Artists. Charles E Brown was an aviation photographer. His archive of 30,000 images has been held by the RAF Museum in Hendon since 1978. Condition: generally good; a few old creases and a short (repaired) tear top right approx 1 cm long. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Second World War pictures. -
John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Montagne near St Emilion (20/10/1968)
Gouache and oil on paper 35 x 52 cm Provenance: Marlborough Galleries 1968; Magdalene Street Gallery, Cambridge; The University of Cambridge Under Librarian. Titled, dated ("2010" for 20th October), and signed lower right. A typically Piper landscape with four main fields of colour quartering the picture. Piper painted several views in Bordeaux, of which this is one; his fascination with local topography is evident in his characterful and abstract evocation of the region's natural forms. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: excellent; original frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Leslie Carr (1891 - 1969)
1440 Great Northern Railway (1910)
Pen and ink 19 x 41 cm Signed and dated lower right. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. Although many local lines have been closed, much of the network remains active today. Leslie Carr was a painter and poster designer from London. He served in the Tank Corps in the First World War and then became a professional artist, mainly producing maritime and architectural scenes. He designed posters for Southern Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, and British Railways (among others). Carr served as a fireman in the Second World War and was a part of several firemen artists' exhibitions. Carr was a member of the Society of Marine Artists. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by the artist.
