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Lancaster bomber in Green Park
Original Silver Gelatin photograph, 1946 18 x 25 cm Stamped to reverse: "Photograph Supplied by The Topical Press Agency Ltd 20-21 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street" Press release label to reverse reads: "XH - RAF PLANES ON VIEW IN GREEN PARK, LONDON "In connection with the Victory Day celebrations in London, a number of RAF planes have been put on view in Green Park, London. "11/6/1946" Further typewritten note reads: "Lancaster B.III ND677/G KO-X of 115 Sqn. First Lancaster to have MONICA airborne tail warning device. Served with 460 Sqn RAAF, during 1944, went to 49 Sqn in April 1945 and finally to 113 Sqn in September 1945. Scrapped July 1946." ND677 was a veteran of 59 missions. The /G suffix - visible in the photograph - indicates that it must have an armed guard at all times. It was unceremoniously scrapped within a month of being on display to the crowds. Monica was a tail-borne radar device, designed to give the bomber crew warning of the approach of a German fighter in their blind spot. However following the crash in February 1943 of a Monica-equipped Lancaster (just seven days into Monica's operational life) the Germans developed equipment called 'Flensburg'. Introduced in early 1944 it was a homing device, a passive radar receiver which enabled Flensburg-equipped night fighters to locate Allied bombers. In July 1944 a Flensburg-equipped Junkers Ju88-G1 mistakenly landed at Woodbridge aerodrome in Suffolk, following which Monica was rapidly withdrawn from service. Condition: Generally very good. Provenance: from the collection of Philip J R Moyes, author of many books on the RAF, most notably The Pictorial History which ran to several volumes. -
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Charles E Brown
AVRO Lancaster bomber Radio Operator
Original Silver Gelatin photograph, c. 1944 Stamped to reverse 'Charles E Brown' with address etc. and serial number 14 x 21 cm Charles E Brown was a famous photographer of aircraft whose father was a butcher in Wimbledon, London. Young Charles was given a camera for his 14th birthday and in 1911 photographed an Edwardian gentleman in trouble landing his balloon in neighbouring Southfields. This photograph was published in the Daily Mirror – the fee being half a crown – and Brown was encouraged to join the Daily Mirror’s photography department upon leaving school at 16. Towards the end of the First World War he served with the Royal Air Force at their official London Photographic Centre. Following the war, he took to photographing trains, and captured a famous photograph of a Southern Railway locomotive that was used for the following ten years in railway posters. The income from this allowed him to pursue his passion of aviation photography in the 1920s and 1930s, from which commissions from the Air Ministry and Fleet Air Arm followed. During the war his work included commissions for Aeronautics magazine. Provenance: from the collection of Philip J R Moyes, author of many books on the RAF, most notably The Pictorial History which ran to several volumes. Condition: Very good -
Robert Parkinson
Exeter College Chapel from Broad Street (1964)
Lithograph 33 x 46 cm A lithograph of Exeter's chapel, viewed from Broad Street, from a drawing by Robert Parkinson. Parkinson's depiction of the chapel centres around its architecture; markedly inspired by the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the chapel was built between 1856 and 1860. Here, Parkinson has its spire reach upward into a blank sky. Parkinson's 1962 etching was reproduced as a lithograph in 1964, 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. Condition: very good, save for crease to top left corner (tear to margin which will be hidden under the mount). If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Laurence Dunn (1910-2006)
SSÂ New Brooklyn (c.1927)
4 x 17 cm Ink and bodycolour on paper SS New Brooklyn was built in Belfast by Harland & Wolff in 1920 for Elder Dempster & Co, and was known initially as New Romance. In 1954, she was sold to Mageolia Nav SA, Panama and renamed Marianna. She was scrapped in 1959 at La Spezia. She was an 'N' Type fabricated ship with straight frames which was introduced in 1917 to utilise the capacity of bridge building companies which had very little of their normal bridge-building work to do during the war. Dunn's drawings of coastal tramps are early works, likely sketched from the side of the Thames estuary near his home. The World Ship Society published the following obituary for the well-published maritime artist and writer  in 2006: DUNN, Laurence. [December 15 2006 — Lloyds List] Many readers will be saddened by the death of well-known marine artist and writer Laurence Dunn in his 97th year. A man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic. Our sympathies go to his wife Jennifer, who provided succour to the many ship lovers who beat a path to the welcoming door of their Gravesend home. Condition: Generally very good, slight toning to paper. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Laurence Dunn (1910-2006)
SS Pinhel Lisboa (c.1927)
4 x 17 cm Ink and bodycolour on paper Dunn's drawings of coastal tramps are early works, likely sketched from the side of the Thames estuary near his home. The World Ship Society published the following obituary for the well-published maritime artist and writer  in 2006: DUNN, Laurence. [December 15 2006 — Lloyds List] Many readers will be saddened by the death of well-known marine artist and writer Laurence Dunn in his 97th year. A man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic. Our sympathies go to his wife Jennifer, who provided succour to the many ship lovers who beat a path to the welcoming door of their Gravesend home. Condition: Generally very good, slight toning to paper. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Laurence Dunn (1910-2006)
SSÂ Denmark Maru (c.1927)
4 x 17 cm Ink and bodycolour on paper SS Denmark Maru was built by Kawasaki Shipyard Co in Japan. Until 1935 she was in service on K Line's Hamburg - New York route. Dunn's drawings of coastal tramps are early works, likely sketched from the side of the Thames estuary near his home. The World Ship Society published the following obituary for the well-published maritime artist and writer  in 2006: DUNN, Laurence. [December 15 2006 — Lloyds List] Many readers will be saddened by the death of well-known marine artist and writer Laurence Dunn in his 97th year. A man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic. Our sympathies go to his wife Jennifer, who provided succour to the many ship lovers who beat a path to the welcoming door of their Gravesend home. Condition: Generally very good, slight toning to paper. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Laurence Dunn (1910-2006)
SSÂ Zrinski (c.1925)
4 x 17 cm Ink and bodycolour on paper Zrinski was built by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd. Following a period in Norwegian ownership it was transferred to Yugoslavian ownership in 1927. In 1940 it was acquired by the Crest Shipping Co Ltd, and sunk by German U-Boat U-140 on 8 December 1940 - as SS Ashcrest. Dunn's drawings of coastal tramps are early works, likely sketched from the side of the Thames estuary near his home. The World Ship Society published the following obituary for the well-published maritime artist and writer  in 2006: DUNN, Laurence. [December 15 2006 — Lloyds List] Many readers will be saddened by the death of well-known marine artist and writer Laurence Dunn in his 97th year. A man of encyclopaedic knowledge, he began his lifelong love of ships in Brixham, where he meticulously recorded passing traffic with the exquisitely accurate line drawings which later became something of a trademark. While studying at London’s Central School of Art his work was noticed by the Southern Railway, which commissioned profiles of its fleet, and this in turn led to work for Orient Line, where he also designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence at the Admiralty, where his technique did much to improve recognition standards, and greatly expanded his shipping clientele, becoming personally known to many chairmen. As well as the shipping press he worked for mainstream publications such as Everybody’s, Sphere and the upmarket comic Eagle. Through his many contacts he enjoyed going to sea in a great variety of ships from aircraft carriers to colliers. Laurence wrote several books, starting with ship recognition titles which introduced new standards of layout, but his best known work was probably Passenger Liners, which was widely taken up by the travel trade. His love of Greece, where he was an early publicist of island cruising, let to involvement in reshaping various passenger liners beginning with Greek Line’s OLYMPIA. In later life he designed several sets of shipping stamps for the Crown Agents, produced photographic volumes on Thames and Mediterranean shipping and still found time to enjoy the passing Thames traffic. Our sympathies go to his wife Jennifer, who provided succour to the many ship lovers who beat a path to the welcoming door of their Gravesend home. Condition: Generally very good, slight toning to paper. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after Jan Kip (1652/3-1722)
Old St Paul's Cathedral (1707)
Engraving, 14 x 17 cm A view of the nave of Old St Paul's Cathedral, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after Johannes 'Jan' Kip, the Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer. 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: Generally very good. -
Take Care! Official Secrets Act WW2 Poster (c.1940)
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Charles E Brown (1896-1982)
Testbed Avro Lancaster Bomber LL735
Silver Gelatin Black & White Photographic Print 19x25cm Stamped to reverse "6231-3 Copyright photograph by Charles E Brown, 14, Longfellow Road, Worcester Park, Surrey, Derwent 4396." The Lancaster bomber needs no introduction as the most famous and important bomber of the Second World War. Here however LL735, a Mk II, is is fitted with a fifth engine, a jet engine. The air intake may be seen above the fuselage and the engine itself replaces the rear gun turret. In 1943 LL735 was fitted with the Metropolitan-Vickers F2/1 Beryl jet engine, and in 1945 it trialed the F2/4 jet engine. This photograph would have been particularly secret at the time it was taken. Charles E Brown was a famous photographer of aircraft whose father was a butcher in Wimbledon, London. Young Charles was given a camera for his 14th birthday and in 1911 photographed an Edwardian gentleman in trouble landing his balloon in neighbouring Southfields. This photograph was published in the Daily Mirror - the fee being half a crown - and Brown was encouraged to join the Daily Mirror's photography department upon leaving school at 16. Towards the end of the First World War he served with the Royal Air Force at their official London Photographic Centre. Following the war, he took to photographing trains, and captured a famous photograph of a Southern Railway locomotive that was used for the following ten years in railway posters. The income from this allowed him to pursue his passion of aviation photography in the 1920s and 1930s, from which commissions from the Air Ministry and Fleet Air Arm followed. During the war his work included commissions for Aeronautics magazine. Provenance: from the collection of Philip J R Moyes, author of many books on the RAF, most notably The Pictorial History which ran to several volumes. -
Anonymous
Man of the World: in a modern force the territorial army for adventure plus technical trainingÂ
Lithographic poster c. 1960 75.5x51cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
He Chose the Army
Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationary Office by the British Colour Printing Co. Ltd. c. 1960. Photolithograph 76x51cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
after Edward Dayes (1763 - 1804)
Oxford (1792)
Hand-coloured engraving 15 x 20 cm Published February 1st 1792 by Harrison & Co, Paternoster Row. A charmingly-coloured Oxford punting scene, with Magdalen Tower and other dreaming spires behind. Edward Dayes was an English watercolour painter and mezzotint engraver. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, when he showed a portrait and views of Waltham Cross and Canterbury. In the three following years he exhibited both miniatures and landscapes. He continued to exhibit at the Academy regularly until the year of his death, contributing a total of 64 works. He also exhibited at the Society of Artists, and worked as draughtsman to the Duke of York and Albany. 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 general views of Oxford. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Proposed Memorial for the Battle Training Area
Pencil wash 49 x 70 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: generally very good; one small mark to far right towards bottom. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
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. -
Southwark Cathedral and the Monument London England Routemaster Bus sign c. 1970
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. -
To and From Geffrye Museum Routemaster Bus Slipboard Poster c1970
Screenprint poster 64x19cm Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT busses. Geffrye Museum is the museum of the home. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
To and From White City Routemaster Bus 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: Good. -
Wellington Museum 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. Condtion: Excellent -
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 -
White City 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: Good, small professionally repaired tear on right hand margin. -
Trafalgar Square 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. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Major Chaplin, 3rd Dragoon Guards
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm A silhouette of Featherstone (Christian name and rank unknown) of the Royal Artillery. 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)
The Hon Miss Winn
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)
Miss Alice Lowneley
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. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Miss Hay Newton
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm The Hay-Newtons were a wealthy family from East Lothian in Scotland. 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: 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)
Miss Kerr Lloyd
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: 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)
Mrs F Chaplin
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. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other silhouettes. -
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 of a Lady III (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: 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)
Watt
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)
Maitland
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: 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)
Marton
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)
Miss Fletcher
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)
Duncan Davidson RN
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Captain Duncan George Davidson was born in 1833 served in the Royal Navy. He became a Captain in 1872 and captained H.M.S. Serapis between 1876 and 1879; he retired a year later. 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)
David Barclay Chapman
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm David Barclay Chapman was a partner in the bank which in 1896 became the Limited Company Barclay & Co, known today as Barclay's. Two of his daughters appear in other silhouettes from this particular set. 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. -
Peter Collins ARCA (1923 - 2001)
Self-Portrait
Watercolour 32 x 45 cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Collins's first job was at an advertising agency, in the commercial studio. World War II interrupted his career and he joined the Royal Artillery (of the British Army), teaching painting and drawing in the Education Corps - whilst simultaneously teaching at St Martin's School of Art, part time. Following the war, Collins studied at the Royal College of Art, winning a scholarship. He then worked as a commercial artist, producing some well-known posters for clients including British Railways and British European Airways. He was the Art Director at Odhams Press and spent time designing for both ICI and Shell. With his wife Georgette, he created the 'Bacombe Galleries' in Sussex, converting a group of buildings into a gallery space. In 1975 they developed the Stanley Studios in Chelsea, which were scheduled for redevelopment, into a combined artists' studio and residence. Moving into the Stanley Studios allowed the Collinses to immerse themselves in Chelsea's art scene, and they proceeded to fill the studios with art, antiques, sculpture, and other curios. 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 Peter Collins. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Miss Chapman
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm One of the daughters of David Barclay Chapman - either Ella Maria or Eugenia Susannah. His other daughter, Adeline Mary, appears in another silhouette from this particular set. David Barclay Chapman was a partner in the bank which in 1896 became the Limited Company Barclay & Co, known today as Barclay's. 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’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
Lennox
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’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Silhouette (circa 1870)
The Hon Mrs F Byron
Gouache, pen, and ink 52 x 44 cm Likely Mary Jane Wescomb, the daughter of the daughter of Reverend William Wescomb. She married the Hon Frederick Byron in 1851; Byron was a cricketer educated at Westminster and Balliol College, Oxford, and became a fellow at All Souls College in 1843. The couple moved in to Langford Grove together after their marriage. 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’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Peter Collins ARCA (1923-2001) Adam Brunskill Book Jacket Design
for Collins publishers (no relation) Watercolour and collage 22x17cm Provenance: The Artist's Studio Signed lower right Peter Collins Typical Collins, with his bright colours and captivating scene, very reminiscent of his travel posters. Click here for other items by the artist and for biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Effie Colbbelt
Gate of Honour, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Watercolour 32x20cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Lancaster Bombers under Construction
Original Silver Gelatin photograph 17 x 21 cm Stamped to reverse 'Certified by Photographic News Agencies Ltd as passed by Censor' '23 Oct 1942' This photograph shows the parts of a Lancaster bomber being assembled. At the back of the photograph, facing away from the viewer, are two nearly or newly completed aircraft, their airscrews visible attached to the wings. The factory buzzes with activity as important war work is undertaken. We have been unable to trace any other copy of this photograph. Provenance: from the collection of Philip J R Moyes, author of many books on the RAF, most notably The Pictorial History which ran to several volumes. -
Joseph Skelton (1783 - 1871) after Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854)
Brasenose College, Oxford with the Radcliffe Camera
Engraving 33 x 46 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). Frederick Mackenzie was a British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1804, and contributed eleven drawings between that year and 1828. He contributed to the Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibitions from 1813, becoming an associate in 1822, and a full member the following year. From 30 November 1831 until, his death he was treasurer to the society. In later life Mackenzie was no longer commissioned to illustrate books. Joseph Skelton was an a topographical and antiquarian engraver. He lived in Oxford for a time and became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His Oxford publications include the Oxonia Antiqua Illustrata; Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from drawings by F. Mackenzie; and the Pietas Oxoniensis, or Records of Oxford Founders. 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: generally very good; some staining to margins but print itself fine. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Oxford views. -
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. -
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. -
Leslie Carr (1891 - 1969)
Paddlesteamer
Mixed media with pencil bodycolour 19 x 18 cm From one of Carr's sketchbooks. A steamship rendered in monochrome, seen head-on and casting a turbid shadow on the water. 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 maritime pictures.
