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Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Kiosk on the Bosphorus
Pencil drawing Dated 4 April 1866 13 x 19.5cm approx. Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and recorded the places he visited. Here he is in Turkey, recording a Kiosk - or Köşkü - on the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water in northwestern Turkey that links the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Inscribed 'Schlossgarten - Juli 1861/ Baden Baden'
Pencil Drawing Sheet 11 x 18.5cm Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and recorded the places he visited. Here he records what is thought to be the gardens of the Neues Schloss in Baden Baden, the former residence of the Margraves of Baden. Baden Baden is an old spa town - with two thermal baths - on the edge of the Black Forest in the south west of Germany. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Louis Osman (1914 - 1996)
Drawings of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire
Pencil, pen, watercolour, &c. Varied measurements - see below Provenance: artist's studio sale A collection of six varied drawings, made by Louis Osman, depicting the architecture and decorative details of Staunton Harold House and Church. These are, respectively: A plan of Staunton Harold Church: 97 x 146 cm Miscellaneous figures — statuary from Staunton Harold House: 54 x 74 cm A large drawing of the facades of the House and Church: 77 x 302 cm A design for the restoration of the organ: 64 x 48 cm Miscellaneous figures — a lion, statue, and tree with part of the Church facade in the background: 54 x 74 cm Drawings of armorial tassels: 76 x 127 cm Condition: varied, fair-good; some handling marks, scuffs, and various damage throughout. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
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Cuthbert "CB" Bradley for Vanity Fair Magazine 'Otho': Otho Paget
30 January 1902 Lithograph 21 x 37 cm CB's cartoon depicts John Otho Paget, noted beagler and author of 'Beagles and Beagling'. Cuthbert Bradley was also a sporting man - he famously authored 'Fox-Hunting from Shire to Shire with Many Noted Packs' and worked as a sporting journalist for The Field. As well as illustrating for Vanity Fair, he painted polo and foxhunting scenes, and other pictures of equestrian interest. The majority of his Vanity Fair cartoons are of hunting men. The Vanity Fair magazine of 1868 to 1914 was subtitled 'A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares'. Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, who aimed to expose the contemporary vanities of Victorian society, it featured regular full-page, colour lithographs of famous (or infamous) contemporary figures. It is for these caricatures that the original Vanity Fair is best known today. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. -
Owen Miller (1907-1960)
You’ve got a Good Case
Ministry of Aircraft Production, Printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross c. 1940 Lithographic poster This poster was one of a series produced by Miller to encourage efficiency in aircraft factories, probably in 1942. 30×20 inches Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Owen Miller (1907-1960) Owen Miller National Savings original vintage calendar poster (1950)
Lithographic poster 50 x 37 cm Printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross. A fantastic original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1950. Born in Auckland and educated at Wellington College, Miller worked as an artist in New Zealand. His illustrations often appeared in Wellington newspapers. He found life difficult in New Zealand during the Depression, and eventually signed on to a boat as a deckhand, working his passage to the UK. When he arrived at the Port of London, he had only £5 to his name. His first job was an illustrator for J Lyons & Co; his greatest work there was to decorate the directors’ dining room as an aircraft interior. When the Second World War began, Miller started work for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Following the war, Collins produced several posters advertising National Savings. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Prospectus Oxoniae Orientalis & Meridionalis
Engraving 33 x 46 cm Loggan's prospect of Oxford as seen from the East, from the 'Oxonia Illustrata'. 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 (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date.Condition: generally good; a little staining to margins and some spotting primarily visible in the sky. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other David Loggan views. -
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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. -
Charles Paine (1895 - 1967)
Boat Race 1921
Lithograph 102 x 64 cm Signed upper right in plate. Charles Paine's iconic 1921 poster encourages the use of the London Underground in order to view the Boat Race. The slick design features one boat’s stern disappearing from the frame and the other boat’s bow entering it (Cambridge won that year), alongside a strikingly Art Deco typeface. Charles Paine was a versatile and prolific designer, who drew on his training in stained glass to create bold, structured and highly stylised lithographs for a variety of companies. This decorative and brightly-coloured map illustrates the various county regiments of Great Britain, with a border of regimental badges. Condition: backed to linen; excellent, two small areas of repair to margin (invisible); hint of old folds. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Boat Race pictures. -
John Donowell (flourished 1753 - 1786) A View of the Conduit part of Carfax Church, the Piazza called the Butter Market, the Town Hall, the West Front of Christ Church College, &c. in the University of Oxford (1750)
Engraving 29 x 42 cm An eighteenth century view of St Aldate''s, featuring the west front of Christ Church and the Town Hall. Undergraduates, academics, and townspeople saunter along, all under the watchful eye of Tom Tower. John Donowell was an eighteenth-century British architect and engraver, considered to be one of the principal architect-draughtsmen in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He exhibited in 1761 at the Free Society, then through the 1760s at the Society of Artists, and from 1778 to 1786 at the Royal Academy; prints, some hand-coloured, were published at this time. Condition: some browning; antique frame with old glass. 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 David Loggan (1634–1692)
Oxford from the East (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Oxford from the east, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The skies are wide and full of the University's dreaming spires. 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. -
Anonymous
Oxford High Street (c.1840)
Pencil & wash on paper 18x23cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828) after Joseph Farington (1747-1821)
Oxford High Street with Queen's College and University College
Engraving with hand colouring 22 x 33 cm Published by J & J Boydell. Joseph Constantine Stadler was a prolific German émigré engraver of images after his contemporaries - here, 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist Joseph Farington. Stadler's engravings are wide-ranging in subject matter and include landscapes, seascapes and portraits, as well as military, sporting and decorative subjects. Stadler was employed by the leading print publisher of the time, John Boydell. Stadler lived in Knightsbridge when he died at the age of 73. Joseph Farington was born in Lancashire and went to study with Richard Wilson in London in 1763. In 1764, 1765, and 1766 he won “premiums” from the Society of Artists for his landscape drawing; he became a member in 1765. He joined the Royal Academy when it was founded in 1769 and was elected an ARA in 1783 and an RA in 1785. Farington contributed works to the Academy’s exhibitions every year until 1801, but only occasionally between 1801 and 1813. He was an active member of the Academy and sat on several important committees, including the one which determined where artworks would be hung during the exhibitions. In 1793 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and helped establish the British Institution. This particular edition depicts a view down Oxford High Street with Queen's College and University College in the eighteenth century. The hand colouring lends a unique charm to this engraving, where the light colours and calm streets suggest the sereneness of the start of an Oxford summer day. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other general views of Oxford, click here. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884) The High, Oxford
Watercolour 15 x 21 cm Signed and dated indiscriminately lower left. A 19th-century view of the High Street, Oxford. The spire of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin towers over the street; a horse and cart and brightly-dressed pedestrians pass by. George Pyne was related to two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours – William Henry Pyne was his father, and John Varley his father-in-law. Pyne trained as an architectural draughtsman and lived in Oxford from the 1850s until his death in 1884, specialising in views of the city and its colleges. His Oxford pictures are both architecturally-minded and romantically creative, often combining intensely detailed depictions of college buildings with imagined pedestrian scenes. Pyne was also noted for his views of Cambridge and Eton, and for his drawing manuals ‘A Rudimentary and Practical Treatise on Perspective for Beginners’ (1848) and ‘Practical Rules on Drawing for the Operative Builder, and Young Student in Architecture’ (1854); the latter texts offer an insight into his method of depicting architecture and its surroundings. Condition: generally good; some spotting and toning to sky. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Brenda Cripps Oxford Spires
Lithograph 20 x 29 cm Titled, signed and dated to lower right hand corner. This lithograph depicts a view over the Oxford skyline. The Old Tom Tower of Christchurch, the Radcliffe Camera, the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and the Sheldonian Theatre tower over the canopy of luscious trees and stand out against the blue summer sky. Condition: Generally very good.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Anon.
Oxford Street Routemaster
Slipboard Poster c.1970 Screenprint poster 64x9cm In a black hand-finished frame. Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT buses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
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Oxford Wings for Victory Poster Design II
c.1943 Gouache on paper 63 x 50 cm 81x66cm including hand-finished frame, UK shipping only Click here to see other posters from this series. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
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Oxford Wings for Victory Poster Design IV
c.1943 Gouache on paper 70 x 51 cm 89 x 68 cm including hand-finished frame, UK shipping only Click here to see other posters from this series. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Anonymous
Oxford Wings for Victory Poster Design
56x38cm 62x44cm including hand-finished black frame. Gouache on paper c. 1943 Click here to see other posters from this series and for more information on Wings for Victory campaigns. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: excellent, framed. -
Ken Messer (1931 - 2018)
Dreaming Spires
Watercolour 30 x 38 cm Signed lower left. Oxford's skyline, including the Radcliffe Camera, the spire of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, and Magdalen Tower, is silhouetted against the grey sky of a winter day. The trees in the foreground are stark and black. Messer's depiction of Oxford's dreaming spires is an outstanding architectural record of the city's - and University's - most remarkable buildings. The painter and draughtsman Ken Messer is closely related to Oxford and its architecture in several ways. Born in Newport, South Wales, he was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys in Oxford, and then spent six years working as an accountant in Oxford. He then joined British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as a steward, flying internationally. Injury due to a car accident during the 1960s meant that he joined the design department of Pergamon Press in Oxford at the age of 33. Six years later, he was appointed to the position of studio manager, in charge of art and design. In 1974, Messer left Pergamon Press to become a freelance graphic designer. He started painting more watercolours, becoming a full-time artist. During the 1980s, his ink drawings were regularly published in the Oxford Times. He has sometimes been called "The Oxford Artist" because of his large number of works depicting Oxford. He and his wife Dilys lived at first in Richmond upon Thames and then in Abingdon, just south of Oxford. Messer's work has been shown at the Mall Galleries for the annual exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours annual exhibitions. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Kerry Lee (1903 - 1988) Oxford
Original vintage map 46 x 60 cm Published by Pictorial Maps Limited, Kerry Lee's own company c.1965 This edition of the map was produced around 1965. It illustrates a number of famous Oxford landmarks, including the Radcliffe Camera, Christ Church College's Tom Tower and all of the colleges of Oxford University. Lee also frames this map with the crest of each college and an illustration of all the college founders. Well known as a creator of pictorial maps of British cities from the mid 20th century, Kerry Lee generally draws a self-portrait in the bottom corner by his signature - as here, where he is seen painting (mustachioed and bearded, and clad in a brown tunic) with his ever-faithful dog Jim. Educated at Reading Schools of Arts and Science, the Slade and the Sorbonne in Paris, he subsequently assisted his step-father, an architect named Mr Harvey, as draftsman. Following the Depression Lee set up 'Associated Artists' at Blandford Studios off Baker Street, with a group of other commercial artists. During World War II he was based in Hertfordshire creating detailed cut-away drawings of German aircraft, and after the war - still at Blandford Studios - published a series of pictorial maps, both those for British Rail and also his own publications. Condition generally very good.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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P S Lamborn (1722-1774)
A view of the Public Library, the Senate House and St Mary's Church and the University of Cambridge
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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. -
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Leslie Carr (1891 - 1969)
Paddlesteamer
Gouache 19 x 29 cm Signed lower right. A steamship on a bright blue ocean, complete with frothing waves. 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. -
Reginald Montague Lander (1913 - 1982)
Paignton, South Devon (1956)
Original vintage poster 100 x 60 cm Printed in Great Britain by Charles & Read, Ltd for British Railways. Signed lower right in the plate. Lander's iconic deck-chair poster encourages travel to Paignton in South Devon - "the family resort of picturesque Torbay". Reginald Lander Lander trained at the Hammersmith School of Art and became chief designer at the Ralph Mott Studio, where he was also studio manager. He worked as a freelance poster designer in the 1930s and produced iconic posters for the British Transport Commission and other Government ministries, as well as various train companies. Condition: generally very good; backed to conservation paper. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Henry William Brewer (1836 - 1903)
Panorama of Oxford (1893)
Pen and ink heightened with body colour 40 x 123 cm Signed and dated 1893. Published in The Graphic as a photogravure image. A huge and beautifully-detailed panorama of Oxford at the end of the nineteenth century. POA. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of the city of Oxford. -
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Samuel Buck (1696-1779) & Nathaniel Buck (active 1724-59) Panorama of the River Thames from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge
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A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Pansies
Gouache 30 x 47 cm c.1930 Label to reverse 'Baynard Press', Signed lower right, further signed in pencil and dated 1929. Provenance: Family of the artist. A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustrator, and designer best known for his vibrant poster designs created for British railway companies during the mid-20th century. Born in Southport, Halliwell developed a strong foundation in art and design early in life. He studied at the Southport School of Art from 1923 to 1926 before graduating to the Royal College of Art in London and subsequently practising as a professional designer from the 1930s. Following his studies, Halliwell married Doris Doyle in Strood Kent, and went on to have a significant teaching career himself, most notably as a lecturer at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (later part of Central Saint Martins), where he influenced a new generation of designers and illustrators. Halliwell is perhaps best remembered for his vibrant and engaging poster designs created for British railway companies during the 1930s. His work was characterised by a bright, graphic style that balanced charm with clarity, often depicting idealised scenes of British holiday destinations—from sunny seaside towns to tranquil countryside vistas. Beyond posters, his artistic output included book illustration, commercial design, and stage costume sketches, showcasing his versatility across mediums. His posters continue to remain enduring symbols of a golden age of British travel and design and are displayed in major collections including the London Transport Museum and the V & A. Condition: Generally very good, faint discolouration and a central fold.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Alex Trickett and David Brooks ParalympicsGB Medallists Map 2012
Lithograph 79 x 60 cm Numbered 692/1000 This colourful map celebrates the achievements of all the 97 athletes and five horses who contributed to ParalympicsGB's medal haul, and follows on from the Team GB Olympic medallists map released in September 2012. Designed by sports journalists Alex Trickett and David Brooks, the map groups athletes from various sporting disciplines on different lines. Athletics takes pride of place on the Circle line, though Britain's monumental success in sports such as cycling and swimming meant that athletes had to be allocated multiple lines, with the medal-winning cyclists, for instance, representing both the Central and Hammersmith & City lines. In addition to this, designers Trickett and Brooks took into account the legendary status of some of these athletes and placed them at symbolic entry points to London 2012, with Sarah Storey, Britain's most decorated female Paralympian, occupying Stratford Station--home of the olympic park-- and Ellie Simmonds placed at West Ham. Printed on high quality paper, the underground lines assume a certain allure as their colours shimmer and the thames, shining silver across the map, divides the city in two. Condition: Generally very good, some small handling marks.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Pat Keely (d. 1970) The Royal Navy
75x51cm Original lithographic poster 1939 Printed for HMSO by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd, London If your age is from 17 1/2 to 28 and you have at least 2 1/2 years' experience in any of the following trades: Ground Engineer (Civil Aviation) General Fitter Millwright Jig & Tool Fitter etc. Why not join the new Fleet Air Arm as Air Fitter or Air Rigger Generous Pay and Allowances - Really Secure Employment Good Prospects of Early Advancement to Air Artificer Little is known of the life of the rather private Pat Keely, a prolific and excellent designer of posters. He designed the World Scout Jamboree 4d stamp in 1957 and produced many posters for the British Government. In this excellent poster three aeroplanes are seen landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier; although somewhat stylised they are likely to be the Blackburn Skua. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. -
Paul Salomonsen (active 1960s) Y Chair (1964)
Lithographic poster (2014) 99 x 61 cm The poster features Hans J Wegner's famous 'Y chair', also known as the 'Wishbone chair'. Carl Hansen & Søn commissioned the poster from a photograph by Salomonsen, a 1960s photographer. The stylish and typically Danish woman examining the chair marks it as a piece of typically Danish design. The chair was known as "The Chair" when it was used in the TV-transmitted debate between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1959. The Chair subsequently became an icon of Danish mid-century furniture design. Condition: Excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884)
Peckwater Quad, Christ Church, Oxford
Watercolour 27.5 x 17.5 cm Signed and dated 1849. A marvellous view of the Peckwater Quadrangle, more affectionately referred to as Peck Quad and known for having arguably the best undergraduate rooms in all of Oxford. The buildings on the north, east and west sides of the quad were designed by Henry Aldrich are one of the earliest examples of English neo-Palladian architecture. They were built by William Townsend between 1706 and 1711, while the Library on the south side was completed later in the eighteenth century. Peck looks rather different today - it is now mostly filled with lawn and hosts Christ Church's extremely large Christmas tree each year. In Pyne's day it was lawnless and filled with elegant pedestrians in nineteenth-century costume; in this view, afternoon light slants down over the buildings, and the lengthening shadows cast by the library creep into the quad. George Pyne was related to two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - William Henry Pyne was his father, and John Varley his father-in-law. Pyne trained as an architectural draughtsman and lived in Oxford from the 1850s until his death in 1884, specialising in views of the city and its colleges. His Oxford pictures are both architecturally-minded and romantically creative, often combining intensely detailed depictions of college buildings with imagined pedestrian scenes. Pyne was also noted for his views of Cambridge and Eton, and for his drawing manuals 'A Rudimentary and Practical Treatise on Perspective for Beginners' (1848) and 'Practical Rules on Drawing for the Operative Builder, and Young Student in Architecture' (1854); the latter texts offer an insight into his method of depicting architecture and its surroundings. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Christ Church. -
Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Peeking inside the barn
Woodblock print 15 x 11 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celebrated for her conceptual abstract works in the 1960s. Born in Hampstead, London, she was the eldest daughter of artists and educators Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Ellis attended the High School in Bath before enrolling at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1953 to 1956, focusing on sculpture. She was awarded a British Institute in Paris Scholarship for the 1956–1957 academic year, allowing her to further her art studies in France. Upon returning to England, Ellis taught art at Badminton School until her retirement in 1997. Ellis was known for her pioneering conceptual abstract oil paintings in the 1960s, noted for being ahead of their time. Additionally, she created sculptures, ceramics, jewellery, and models, showcasing her versatility and commitment to professional craftsmanship. This woodblock print depicts a tractor parked inside of a barn with a nearby horse hanging its head over the gate to its stable. Ellis's lines and shapes are irregular, suggesting either a deliberate folk-art influence or the natural texture of the woodblock carving process. Furthermore, Ellis makes use of the technique of 'negative space', creating contrasts between the outline of the tractor and its surroundings. This composition was likely produced in Ellis's early artistic career, before she shifted to more abstract conceptual work. In any case, it is a beautiful and evocative piece, capturing a rustic, almost timeless moment with striking simplicity. Condition: Generally very good.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Pieter van der Aa (1659 - 1733), after David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
King's College, Cambridge (1727)
Engraving 13 x 17 cm An eighteenth-century view of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 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: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Pembroke College, Cambridge -
Pembroke College, Cambridge (1998)
Watercolour 29 x 17 cm Signed lower right illegibly. Five characterful vignettes of Pembroke in bright watercolour. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Pembroke College, Cambridge. -
Andrew Ingamells (1956 - ) Pembroke College, Cambridge
Etching 45 x 47 cm Publisher's proof, signed to lower right. This meticulously detailed gravure etching by Andrew Ingamells is the first etching or engraving to depict Pembroke College Cambridge from an aerial perspective since David Loggan's celebrated engraving of the 1680s. Ingamells trained at St Albans School of Art and the London College of Printing, subsequently working as a graphic designer and illustrator. Based in London, he began making drawings of the buildings and landscapes of London. Ingamells’ work is in many public collections including those of the Tate Gallery, The National Trust, The Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, and the City of London Guildhall Library. His pictures are also in several private collections, including those of various Oxford and Cambridge colleges, HRH King Charles III, and Shell Oil. The artist is currently part-way through his epic project to record all the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a project undertaken in homage to David Loggan. Condition: Generally very good, comes with frame.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Pembroke College, Oxford (1705)
Engraving 31 x 44 cm Loggan's view of Pembroke from the second edition of the 'Oxonia Illustrata'. 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 (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: good. Backed to Japanese Paper. Evidence of some historic separation to central fold. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Pembroke College, Oxford. -
Joseph Skelton (1783 - 1871) after George Vertue (1684 - 1756)
Founders & Benefactors of Pembroke College, with a View of the Buildings &c. (1818)
Engraving 21 x 24 cm A historic engraving of Pembroke's august founders and early architecture, which later formed part of the artist's 1828 'Pietas Oxoniensis, or Records of Oxford Founders'. George Vertue FSA was an English engraver and antiquary. He was apprenticed to a heraldic engraver in France, then worked for the Flemish engraver Michael Vandergucht before setting up on his own. He was also a student of the English portrait painter and copyist Thomas Gibson. He became the official engraver to the Society of Antiquaries when it was founded in 1717, and his patrons included several British aristocrats. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. 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. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Pembroke College, Oxford. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Pembroke College, Oxford (1727)
Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view of Pembroke College, Oxford, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after an earlier one by 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. -
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Pembroke College, View from the North Quadrangle (1966)
Lithograph 36 x 50 cm A lithograph of Pembroke's North Quad, from a drawing by Alan Sorrell. The artist's striking use of perspective and nebulously sketched figures make it a good example of Sorrell's style. Sorrell's 1965 etching was reproduced as a lithograph a year later, 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. Alan Ernest Sorrell was an English artist and writer best remembered for his archaeological illustrations, particularly his detailed reconstructions of Roman Britain. Sorrell trained at the Southend municipal school of art and, after a brief spell as a commercial artist in London, he attended the Royal College of Art between 1924 and 1927. He was a Senior Assistant Instructor of Drawing there between 1931 and 1939, and again between 1946 and 1948. In 1937 he had been elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society, and during the war served as a camofleur. After the war, Sorrell's archaeological and architectural work became their focus. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Jane Gray (b.1931) Design for stained glass window
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper 52 x 68 cm Dated 1975 to lower right. Jane Gray A.R.C.A. (b.1931) is a British stained glass artist. She studied stained glass at the Kingston School of Arts (1949-51) and later at the Royal College of Art (1951-55) under Lawrence Lee. Lee was so impressed with Gray’s work that he asked her to work alongside him on the design of ten nave windows for Coventry Cathedral. This six-year-long design project culminated in their final installation in 1962 after the cathedral’s consecration. Gray was the first woman to become a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and has designed more than a hundred windows in private and public buildings, chapels and over forty churches across the country, including St Peter’s, Martindale, Shrewsbury Abbey, St Oswald, Oswestry and St Mary, Chirk. Gray’s designs mark a crucial turning point in the history of stained glass art as the Victorian style gave way to a modern aesthetic. In her work, Gray navigates this shift with a style that, whilst distinctly modern, retains a deep rooted sense of the medieval. Despite many of her commissions being for church windows, stained glass design was not simply about religious depiction for Gray, but more about ‘colour, shapes, luminosity, [and] playing with rainbows’. This stained glass cartoon depicts a lovely wildflower meadow. In keeping with her love of colour and luminosity, the flowers included in this design promise to breathe a breath of fresh air into any room. Although it remains unclear if and where this design was realised in glass, Gray's drawing and annotations offer valuable insights into her working process. -
John Samuel Agar (1773 - 1858) after John Uwins (1782 - 1857) Common Dress of Pensioner of Trinity Hall, Doctor in Law, and Doctor in Physic (1815)
Aquatint with original hand colouring 25 x 30 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). An engraving of three variations of early nineteenth-century Oxford academic dress. Thomas Uwins RA RWS was a British painter in watercolour and oil, and a book illustrator. He became a full member of the Old Watercolour Society and a Royal Academician, and held a number of high-profile art appointments including the librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria and the Keeper of the National Gallery. In the late 1790s he began producing work for Ackermann's collections. John Samuel Agar was an English portrait painter and engraver, who exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1806 and at the British Institution until 1811. He was at one time president of the Society of Engravers. Rudolph Ackermann published many of his engravings. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: Generally very good; slight toning to paper.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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John Samuel Agar (1773 - 1858) after John Uwins (1782 - 1857) Common Dress of Pensioner of Trinity Hall, Doctor in Law, and Doctor in Physic (1815)
Aquatint 25 x 30 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). A monochrome engraving of three variations of early nineteenth-century Oxford academic dress. Thomas Uwins RA RWS was a British painter in watercolour and oil, and a book illustrator. He became a full member of the Old Watercolour Society and a Royal Academician, and held a number of high-profile art appointments including the librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria and the Keeper of the National Gallery. In the late 1790s he began producing work for Ackermann's collections. John Samuel Agar was an English portrait painter and engraver, who exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1806 and at the British Institution until 1811. He was at one time president of the Society of Engravers. Rudolph Ackermann published many of his engravings. Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints. Condition: Generally good; a few faint spots.If you would like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Percy Drake Brookshaw (1907-1993) Boat Race
Lithograph in colours, 1937 25 x 30cm (10 x 12.5 inches) Vintage Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race poster from 1937. These small posters were designed to be utilised on buses. Born in Southwark and educated at the Central Schools of Arts and Crafts, Drake Brookshaw was a renowned designer for the Underground Group and London Transport between 1928 and 1958. His wonderful posters evoke a feeling of movement, and probably none more so than this one as the seven visible men strain on their oars. His clever use of colour includes both light blue for Cambridge, and dark blue for Oxford. If you are interested in something similar, or have something similar to sell email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Percy Drake Brookshaw (1907-1993) Cricket
Original coach poster Lithograph c. 1950s 76x50cm A poster for advertising details of coaches to cricket matches such as The Ashes or other Test Matches. Brookshaw was born in Southwark, in London, and educated at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. He was a particularly accomplished lithographer, skilled also as a painter in both oil and watercolour. Identifying the former talent, F Gregory Brown - the poster and textile designer - encouraged him to become an illustrator and poster designer. Producing posters for London Transport and Shell, inter alia, between 1928 and 1958, many of his posters depict sporting events. His two posters for the annual University Boat Race are well known and highly sought after, and his wonderful posters often evoke a feeling of movement, whether rowers straining on their oars, or horses or greyhounds racing. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Conditon: Generally very good, a few short edge tears and soft creases, see photograph. -
Percy Drake Brookshaw (1907-1993) Greyhound Racing coach poster Lithograph 76x50cm Please click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
