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Margaret Macadam (1902-1991)
Juggler
Watercolour drawing, signed lower right 26cm x 18cm In The Barbarians (1935), set in Paris and on the Riviera in 1922, Virginia Faulkner sets out her account of the Bohemian life of expats and war veterans. The Barbarians, a loose cluster of creative types, comprised painters, a sculptor, a writer, a pianist, and a gigolo. Faulker was only 22 when she wrote the book. Margaret Macadam was a British illustrator active in the 1920s and 1930s. She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy schoos in 1925. Amongst her commercial works are several dust wrapper designs for London-based publishers, including the dust-jacket design for the first edition of Agatha Christie’s first straight novel ‘Giant’s Bread’. Following the discovery of an archive of Macadam’s work in 2016, it was possible to connect her work on Giant’s Bread to other known designs. Condition: Excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Margaret Macadam (1902-1991)
Spring: Lady with an Afghan Hound
Signed Mixed media c.1930 28x23cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Marianne James
Entrance to Third Court St. John’s College Cambridge (c.1810-1860)
Watercolour & pencil Signed 10×17cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Mary Fedden (1915-2012) Moonlight at Cappadocia (1970)
Watercolour 18 x 13 cm Signed and dated lower left Lonely Planet says of Cappadocia, "As if plucked from a whimsical fairytale and set down upon the stark Anatolian plains, Cappadocia is a geological oddity of honeycombed hills and towering boulders of otherworldly beauty." Here Fedden presents an almost surreal landscape, where the forms of rocks, sky, and moonlight swim out of a subtle palette. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. In original frame with replacement mount in the style of the original. -
Macdonald (Max) Gill (1884-1947)
Australia: Her Natural and Industrial Resources (1950)
His Majesty’s Stationary Office, SO Code NO. 70-538-5-2 Lithographic poster 51 x 76cm (20 x 30 inches) Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Condition generally very good, a little spotting and the odd very short edge tear to margin not affecting image. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Macdonald (Max) Gill (1884-1947) Wonderground Map of London (c. 1924, after 1914 original edition)
Lithographic poster 75x94cm In the present work, in the top left-hand corner it reads 'On to Wembley' making reference to the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. Gill's original 1914 poster was hugely popular and reprinted with updates to feature topical events. Born in Brighton, Max Gill was the second son in a family of thirteen children; his elder brother was Eric Gill, the typographer and sculptor. Both Gills exhibited significant talent at a young age. Max Gill’s first map was made for a school map-drawing project following which he entered maps into competitions in boys’ magazines. In 1903 he moved to London as assistant to the ecclesiastical architects Sir Charles Nicholson and Hubert Corlette. By 1908 he had started his own architectural practice, but in 1909 Sir Edwin Lutyens commissioned Gill to paint a “wind dial” map for Nashdom, a large house in Buckinghamshire. The wind dial was set over the fireplace and attached to a weather vane on the roof, allowing the occupant to know the direction of the wind from the comfort of the house. He produced seven further wind dials including for Lutyens’s Lindisfarne Castle and for the Allhusen Room at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although he continued to practice as an architect, Frank Pick commissioned him to create seven pictorial maps for the Underground, the first being the famous 1913 ‘Wonderground Map of London Town.’ In 1917 he joined the Imperial War Graves Commission’s headstone design committee, designing the typeface and regimental badges. Gill’s memorials for the fallen in the First World War include for Balliol and Worcester Colleges and Christ Church in Oxford. During the 1920s and 30s Gill undertook many commercial commissions for advertising materials. The Empire Marketing Board and Shell-Mex as well as further maps for the Underground. He designed in 1922 the first diagrammatic map of the Underground which provided the foundation for Beck’s more famous map. By the 1930s his major works were murals. Those of the Arctic and Antarctic on the ceilings of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge are beautiful, but the most impressive is the map of the North Atlantic in the first-class dining room of the Queen Mary (maiden voyage: 1936, now moored at Long Beach, California). During the Second World War he created a series of propaganda posters for the Ministry of Information. -
Lady Margaret Myddleton (1910 - 2003)
Harbour at Menton
Oil on canvas 32 x 45 cm Signed lower left, and titled on label to reverse. Myddleton's sunny view of this fashionable Cote d'Azur port sees two sailing boats make their way into the harbour, as three onlookers watch from the pier. Behind them rise the town's sun-drenched buildings, including the basilica of Saint-Michel-Archange, and the purple of the French Alps. Lady Margaret Myddleton was an accomplished painter, painting interiors, country houses, and landscapes (both home and abroad). This was likely painted while Lady Myddleton was holidaying on the French Riviera. Most of her watercolours are on display in Chirk Castle, Wrexham, the family seat of the Myddleton family since 1593 (although the castle's ownership was transferred to the National Trust in 1981). Lady Myddelton was the chatelaine of the castle for thirty years, and died there in 2003. She had married Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (Deputy Master of the Household to King George VI) in 1931, and the couple struggled to maintain the castle and estate. In 1978, Chirk and its 468 acres of parkland were bought for the nation through the National Land Fund and for the next three years were administered by the Welsh Office. In 1981 they passed to the National Trust, which now manages them. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more Modern British original painting. -
Robert Kent Thomas (1816-1884)
Merton College Oxford
Etching, pubished 1879 21.5x16.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good, mounted to board. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Merton College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Merton College, 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. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Merton College, Oxford
Lithograph 24 x 17 cm Titled in plate lower right and signed in pencil lower left. Casson's blue-toned view of Merton, complete with strolling undergraduates and leaning bicycles. 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. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Merton College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
St Alban Hall, Oxford - now Merton College (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm St Alban Hall, sometimes known as St Alban's Hall or Stubbins, was one of the medieval halls of the University of Oxford, and one of the longest-surviving. It was established in the 13th century and was acquired by neighbouring Merton College in the 16th century. The institutions formally merged in the late 19th century. The site in Merton Street, Oxford, is now occupied by Merton's Edwardian St Alban's Quad. 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. -
Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876 - 1964)
Merton Street, Oxford
Watercolour 37 x 25.5 cm Signed in pencil lower right. A wintry view of Holywell Street, Oxford, where Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte famously take up lodgings in Brideshead Revisited. Magdalen Tower peeps out over the cobbled lane. On the other side of the wall is the Fellows Garden of Merton College. Bernard Cecil Gotch was a Winchester-born artist who is best known for his atmospheric watercolours of Britain's towns and cities (most notably Oxford). He moved to Oxford in 1927, painting many watercolours of the interiors and exteriors of Oxford’s many buildings. His works concentrate on the grand exteriors and interiors of the University's colleges, and he exhibited frequently - including an exhibition every term at Oriel College. His first notable commission was for the publisher Methuen, illustrating ''A Shepherd’s Life'' by W H Hudson. Whilst in London he was invited to illustrate a book on the Public Schools of England (which was sadly never completed). He exhibited watercolours at the Fine Art Society and Lincolns Inn, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1952 Gotch was given an Honorary MA by the University of Oxford, and, after his death in 1963, a memorial was held for him at Oriel. Condition: slight discolouration to paper. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Poulain
Messageries Maritimes - Union Française
Original vintage poster 98 x 63 cm Poulain's poster advertising the Messageries Maritimes (a French merchant shipping company) features a unicorn with a mane in the colours of the French flag. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen; evidence of a few short old edge tears now largely invisible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
John Robert Murray McCheyne (1911 - 1982)
Metamorphosis (1969)
Polished redwood 96 cm high Provenance: the artist's estate. A significant work by the artist. This sensual mid-century modern nude conveys a sense of monumental abstraction through its sloping curvatures. It swells and recedes, demonstrating not only the sinuous possibilities of the human figure, but also those of the Hepworth- and Moore-influenced abstract form. John Murray McCheyne was a sculptor and teacher. He studied under the sculptor Alexander Carrick at the Edinburgh College of Art between 1930 and 1935. In the 1950s and 1960s he became Master of Sculpture at King’s College, University of Newcastle, and began to work on public sculpture commissions while there. He exhibited at the Palace of Arts' Empire Exhibition Scotland in 1938, and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, and the Royal Glasgow Institute. Condition: generally very good; one or two very small scratches. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Modern British Sculpture. -
Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) Girl Wringing out her Hair Patinated bronze, 1962 26cm in height Michael Ayrton was a British artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. This sculpture, rendered in patinated bronze, is a portrayal of an unposed nude, one of Ayrton's favourite subjects. In his book "Drawings and Sculpture", Ayrton muses on his studies of bathers: 'I like to study the nude when he or she is untroubled by my observation, and bathers in general are the only nudes, or semi-nudes, who are not particularly interested in the onlooker.' Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist by Nigel Balchin, a close friend of Ayrton's, thence by descent to the previous owner. Sotheby's, Lot 128, 11 July 2013. Literature: Michael Ayrton, Drawings and Sculpture, with a Forward by C. P. Snow, Cory, Adams & Mackay, London, 1962, illustrated pl.73 (another cast). If you'd ike to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Map of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (1622) engraved by William Hole for Drayton’s Poly Olbion
London (1622) 24 x 31 cm (9 x 12 in) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Designs for an Interlacing Motif (1949)
Watercolour 37 x 52 cm Dated 26-2-1949 and signed. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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 the artist. -
Ministry of War Transport Quicker Turnaround Helps to Quicker Victory - Football
Original vintage poster c. 1940 30x20" Printed by H M Stationery Office by J Weiner Ltd London WC1 Provenance, the Bendell Bayley studio. During the war, every aspect of life had its own Government influence. Here transport of war materiel is being managed and faster re-loading of transport is encouraged to improve efficiency. Condition: Good. Backed to linen. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Black Design for Sculpture (1966)
Watercolour 18 x 16 cm Signed and dated lower right. A design for a metal sculpture, on a blue- and grey-toned background. William Black was a St Ives artist who began his career as an architect. In the 1950s he came into money and ran away to St Ives to become a professional artist, studying under John Tunnard and associating with other artists like Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Black rarely put up work for sale during his lifetime and is known for his architectural and deconstructivist sculptures which espoused the modernist spirit of the St Ives group in the 1960s. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Modern British Art. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Design for Modernist Seaside House
Watercolour 27 x 40 cm Signed lower left and inscribed to reverse. Clapham's designs for a modernist war memorial to be erected in a training area at an army base. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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 the artist. -
Anonymous Moss Gouache original design for poster
30x33cm c. 1930s Sadly the artist is unknown, but this rather good example of commercial artwork cleverly places the images of two impeccably dressed horse riders upon tremendously handsome horses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good condition, a few old losses as may be seen in picture. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Motorcyclist
Pencil on tracing paper 20 x 32 cm Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: generally very 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. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Mount Vernon Hospital, Design for Stained Glass Window (1982)
Watercolour 10.5 x 20 cmDated and artist label verso.
Mount Vernon Hospital is located in Northwood, in north-west Greater London and was founded as The North London Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in a mansion on Hampstead High Street in 1860. A purpose-built but beautiful hospital at Mount Vernon was built in 1881 in the French Renaissance style but in 1901, it was decided to build a more-modern facility on part of the Northwood Park Estate which was opened in 1904.
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. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
St John's College Bridge of Sighs Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
Trinity College Bridge Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed in an antique-white-finished frame with gilt slip. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Nat Harrison
Accidents Sometimes Happen... Work Carefully Avoid Scrap
Original poster c. 1943 Printed for HMSO by J Weiner Ltd, London for the Ministry of Aircraft Production Produced by the Bayly-Souster advertising agency, Fleet Street Provenance the estate of Ernest Bendell-Bayly The waste-not-want-not campaign of World War 2 in the UK had to tackle waste at all levels. Here workers in aircraft factories are encouraged to work carefully in order to avoid creating products that had to be scrapped. Not only were the raw materials scrapped, but also the valuable hours of workers' time involved. When Lord Beaverbrook commenced his term as Minister of Aircraft Production in May 1940 it was an industry beset with problems. Aircraft parts were produced in sufficient numbers, but assembly into flyable aircraft proved more challenging – the Castle Bromwich Spitfire factory had not produced a single completed aircraft by this point. Moreover the RAF central depots had large supplies of aircraft that had not been issued to squadrons. Once this was all brought under Beaverbrook’s control, aircraft production increased rapidly. During the Battle of Britain, the British production of fighter aircraft was two-and-a-half times that of Germany. Britain had 644 operable fighters at the start of July 1940 – when the Battle of Britain began – against the German 725. By the end of October 1940, when the German offensive finished, British fighter aircraft had – despite significant losses – increased to 732 whilst the Germans were left with just 275. To achieve this great productivity increase the Ministry was run on informal grounds; few notes were kept; staff members had few formal roles. Essential to the success were motivational posters in the aircraft factories. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
National Portrait Gallery Routemaster Slipboard Poster c1970
Screenprint poster 64x19cm Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT busses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent -
National Savings calendar poster (1946)
Original vintage poster 50 x 38 cm Printed for HMSO by Chromoworks Ltd, London. An original lithographic poster aimed at children, advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1946. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
National Savings calendar poster (1947)
Original vintage poster 50 x 38 cm Printed for HMSO by Marion, Son & Hall Ltd, London. An original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1946. The various birds in the poster enjoy 'song and sunshine all year round' - with the implication being that those who save with National Savings will enjoy the same good fortune. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
National Savings calendar poster (1949)
Original vintage poster 50 x 37 cm Printed for HMSO by Mardon, Son & Hall Ltd, Bristol. An original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1949. The various creatures on the poster are storing food for the winter - just as we ought to save our money via the National Savings scheme. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
Whitlock
Your Savings Soon Mount Up (1930)
Original vintage poster 76 x 50 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, Westminster, SW1. Printed for HM Stationery Office by Messrs McCaw, Stevenson, & Orr Ltd, London. This poster, depicting a biplane soaring over the British countryside, was designed and published by the Government to promote saving. Posters like this encouraged people to save via National Savings - in doing so, their savings would mount like the pictured plane. 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 National Savings posters. -
National Savings Map of the British Isles showing Festivals and Customs
Original vintage poster 100 x 76 cm A stylish 1950s poster illustrating the quaint local customs of the British Isles. These glorious festivals and traditions are a matter of national pride - as is, the poster suggests, saving via the National Savings scheme. Condition: generally very good; previously folded; pin holes to corners and a little creasing to very edges. 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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Well Saved!
Original vintage poster 76 x 51 cm Printed for HM Stationery Office by GCM Printing Service Ltd, Leicester. This poster, published by the Government and designed to promote saving, encourages us to save via the Post Office Savings Bank, the Trustee Savings Banks, and National Savings. Like the young football player pictured, we too can succeed by saving. Condition: generally very good; a few very short repaired edge tears and pin holes to corners. All would hide under a mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
New College Lane, Oxford
Lithograph 35 x 28 cm Signed lower left and numbered 10 in ink. Between 1902 and 1904 William Nicholson lived in Woodstock; during this period he made several architectural studies of Oxford's colleges and other University buildings. Sir William Nicholson was a British painter and printmaker. He is also known as an illustrator, author of children’s books, stained glass designer, and theatre set designer. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures of New College, Oxford. -
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Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
New College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Le College Neuf (New College), engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, New College is one of the oldest colleges at the university and was the first to admit undergraduate students. Architecturally, New College was innovative in its design, in that it was all planned around an enclosed quadrangle (finished 1386). This was the first quadrangle of its type, though it has since become one of the defining features of colleges across Oxford and Cambridge. 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. -
William Logsdail (1859-1944)
Cloisters of New College, Oxford
Oil on board 39 x 28 cm Signed lower right. In original Watts-style gilt frame. Logsdail was educated at Lincoln Cathedral School and then Lincoln School of Art. Initially intending to become an architect, he was encouraged to divert his attentions to painting. After winning a Gold Medal in a competition against students of other English art schools, Logsdail continued his painting career at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Antwerp. His promise was recognised by the Royal Household when his 1880 picture The Fish Market was purchased for Osborne House. Logsdail went on to spend the next twenty years in Venice, studying and painting the city's architecture. His 1883 rendering of the Piazza of St Mark's, Venice, was named by the Royal Academy as picture of the year. He also spent time painting the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1912, having moved away from architectural painting and towards portraiture, he was elected to the Society of Portrait Painters. He settled in Oxfordshire in 1922. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
New College, Oxford (1705)
Engraving 31 x 49 cm 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 has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: repaired tear to central fold; has been washed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Matthison (1853-1926)
New College, Oxford: Front Quad
Watercolour 35 x 52 cm Signed lower right. A charming watercolour of New College's Front Quad complete with members of the college in academic dress, wandering birds, and a gardener mowing the grass. William of Wykeham, who founded New College in 1379, was an ambitious builder. His vision for the college was of a Chapel, Hall, Library, and rooms for tutors and students to work and live in, all of which would be built around a quadrangle. This was the first time a college had been set in this way, and it became a model for colleges worldwide. Matthison was born near Birmingham and attended King Edward’s School in the city. He learnt drawing at the Birmingham Central School of Art and then became a pupil of Birmingham artist Edward Watson. He became a professional artist in 1875 and moved to Oxfordshire a few years after; this was where he had the opportunity to produce many of the Oxford views for which he is known today. In 1902 he moved to Park Town in Oxford and was commissioned by Robert Peel to paint more than seventy views of the University of Oxford, which were subsequently made into postcards. Priced at seven for a shilling, they were only available from E Cross of Pembroke Street (a long-since closed business). Raphael Tuck & Sons also commissioned him to produce postcard scenes of Cambridge. Matthison’s views of Oxford were later printed in Fifty Watercolour Drawings of Oxford, published in 1912 by Alden & Co. Condition: generally very good; a few spots to sky. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
The Garden Quadrangle, New College, Oxford (1989)
Lithograph 25 x 39 cm Signed, titled and dated in plate, and numbered 153/500 and signed lower right in pencil. Casson's view of New College's Garden Quad, complete with picnicking undergraduates. 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: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
New College, Oxford
Lithograph 29 x 35 cm Signed lower left and numbered 10. Between 1902 and 1904 William Nicholson lived in Woodstock; during this period he made several architectural studies of Oxford's colleges and other University buildings. Sir William Nicholson was a British painter and printmaker. He is also known as an illustrator, author of children’s books, stained glass designer, and theatre set designer. Condition: very good. In handsome faux-bamboo gilt frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Queen's College, Oxford. -
John Baptist Malchair (1730 – 1812)
View from the Master's Lodgings, New College, Oxford (1929)
Lithograph 33 x 46 cm A 1929 lithograph from a 1767 watercolour of New College by John Malchair. The artist's composition highlights the pale stone of New College on a winter's day. The chapel's spires stretch upward into a cold, cloud-filled sky, as do the bare branches of the trees. Malchair's watercolour (which is held by the Ashmolean museum) was reproduced as a lithograph in 1929, 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. Malchair was a German-born watercolourist, violinist, drawing master, and collector of traditional European music. He is described as “one of the most distinctive figures of eighteenth century Oxford”, and is recognised as having been an influence on later landscape artists, including John Constable. Malchair was a talented artist, producing hundreds of paintings of English landscapes. His legacy is the collection of hundreds of sketches and watercolours of historical, architectural and topographical interest, particularly of Oxford's medieval buildings. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Newchurch, Romney Marsh (1947)
Watercolour 40 x 57 cm Provenance: Marlborough Galleries. Signed lower right. A characterful Piper view of Newchurch Church, Kent, with its leaning tower. Piper was rather enamoured by Romney Marsh's churches; the architectural historian Nicholas Pevsner commissioned him in 1947 to produce a book on the area for King Penguin Books. Piper stayed for a time there and the published book included water-colours, drawings, and musings on the Marsh. 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: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper. -
Silhouette of a Gentleman I (circa 1870)
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Prior to photography, silhouettes were the easiest way of recording a person's appearance. This set might record the group present at a country house party, a wedding, or other similar convivial occasion. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Andrew Gillon
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Prior to photography, silhouettes were the easiest way of recording a person's appearance. This set might record the group present at a country house party, a wedding, or other similar convivial occasion. Condition: generally good; some staining to upper edge. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Captain Adams, 20th Regt
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Prior to photography, silhouettes were the easiest way of recording a person's appearance. This set might record the group present at a country house party, a wedding, or other similar convivial occasion. Condition: generally good; some staining to upper and right margins. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Captain Thursby, 9th Lancers
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Captain Piers Thursby was born in 1834 and served in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, with whom he served during the Indian Mutiny of the 1850s. He was the son of Revd. W. Thursby of Ormerod House and died in 1904. Prior to photography, silhouettes were the easiest way of recording a person's appearance. This set might record the group present at a country house party, a wedding, or other similar convivial occasion. Condition: generally very good; some staining to right edge. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Captain Warburton
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Prior to photography, silhouettes were the easiest way of recording a person's appearance. This set might record the group present at a country house party, a wedding, or other similar convivial occasion. Condition: generally very good; occasional spots. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes.
