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Jean Brian (1910-90)
X Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver (1968 Winter Olympics Grenoble France)
1968 Lithographic poster 95.1x 63.4cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Inglesham Church (1989)
Lithograph 38 x 56 cm Piper’s rendering of St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham. His characteristic markmaking, with hues of blue and green, makes up the architecture of the interior. 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. -
John Piper
Skeabost, Skye 1975
Screenprint by Curwen Studio Printed on Arches by Kelpra Studio and published by Marlborough Fine Art 68x89cm Signed in crayon; an un-numbered proof print aside from the edition of 70. Levinson 250 From the Series 'Five Scottish Chapels (in ruins)' If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gideon Yates
View on The Thames with Staines Bridge
25 x 48 cm Watercolour Charmingly signed lower left, on the side of the stone c.1830 Little is known of the life of Yates. Even his date of death is disputed with some sources putting it at 1837. What is known is that he spent most of his working life in London, producing many detailed views of The Thames such as this one. His style is very distinctive, and this large and impressive view of London Bridge is a typical view. He is thought to have lived in Lancaster in 1811, and to have travelled widely throughout Britain and the Continent. His works are in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum. UK Government Art Collection item 6701 is another view of The Thames by Yates. Click here for other paintings by Yates. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gideon Yates (?1790-?1840)
1831 View on The Thames with London Bridge from the East Side showing Fishmonger's Hall, The Church of St Magnus the Martyr and St. Paul's Cathedral.
c.1831 29x54cm Watercolour unsigned Provenance: The Parker Gallery LIttle is known of the life of Yates. Even his date of death is disputed with some sources putting it at 1837. What is known is that he spent most of his working life in London, producing many detailed views of The Thames such as this one. His style is very distinctive, and this large and impressive view of London Bridge is a typical view. He is thought to have lived in Lancaster in 1811, and to have travelled widely throughout Britain and the Continent. His works are in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum. In this view, Thames barges are in the foreground with their distinctive brown sails. A steamship proceeds along the middle of The Thames. The first steamboat patented was in 1729, by John Allen an English physician. However it was not until 1783 that the first steam-powered ship, "Pyroscaphe," was demonstrated on the River Saône. By 1788 John Fitch in Philadelphia was operating a commercial service along the Delaware River were built in the United States. The first sea-going steamboat was the "Experiment" built by Richard Wright in 1813; by this point river services were becoming well established although it was not until 1815 that The Thames acquired its first successful services with "Margery" and "Thames" arriving from the Clyde where they had been in service for some years. Margate and Gravesend were the main destinations. The steamboat in this view is a paddlesteamer, with two side wheels. At the north end of London Bridge (on the far side from the viewer) is Fishmongers' Hall, St Magnus the Martyr Church is visible on the near side of the bridge, and St Paul's Cathedral is visible beyond. UK Government Art Collection item 6701 is another view of The Thames by Yates, also from The Parker Gallery. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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Hugo Schol (Swiss, 20th Century)
Furka Oberalp
Lithographic poster (1959) Brig-Gletsch-Andermatt-Disentis *Schweiz*Suisse*Switzerland 20x12.5" An arresting scene of the Furka Oberalp Bahn/Railway by one of the best Swiss poster artists of the period. Here in a conveniently small size, the red of the train contrasts with the vivid colours of the Alps. -
Carl Kunst (1884-1912) Bilgeri Ski Ausrüstung
51x85cm Lithographic poster Reichhold & Lang, Lith. Kunstanstalt GMBH München A view of the Matterhorn - the obvious mountain in the background - near Zermatt in Switzerland, made for Bilgeri Week in Bregenz with old-fashioned wooden skis and poles c. 1910. Bilgeri were an Austrian manufacturer of skis. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Anderson Bell (1809-1865)
King's College Cambridge Chapel Interior
Signed and indistinctly dated Watercolour c. 1840 53x39cm Bell was born in Glasgow; his father was James Bell, advocate and his sister Jane Cross Simpson the hymn-writer and poet. Following Edinburgh University Bell spent 1829 and 1830 in Rome as an art student, returning to the UK to serve his articles as an architect with Rickman & Hutchinson, the gothic revivalist practice in Birmingham. Subsequently he practised in Edinburgh, designing country houses, and the Victoria Buildings in Glasgow for the Conservative politician Archibald Orr Ewing in Scottish baronial style. Thirty of the engravings in John Le Keux's magnificent 1847 book Memorials of Cambridge are from paintings by Bell; this particular painting is believed to have been painted at the same time, although not published. The Great East Window depicted in the painting was created between 1526 and 1531 by Gaylon Hone and three partners (one Flemish and two English) and - together with the other sixteen they made - represent some of the finest stained glass of their period. Here Bell has captured the colours and the light of the window in almost magical fashion. It is an interesting view as it records the chapel in the mid nineteenth century. In 1968 the installation of Rubens' the Adoration of the Magi as an altarpiece involved the lowering of the Sanctuary floor through removal of the steps clearly visible in Bell's view and also removal of the seventeenth century panelling around the walls. It is still felt that the chapel would have been better left 'unimproved' and without the Reubens, though the form recorded by Bell had itself been improved in 1906 when Detmar Blow designed a reredos. Blow's reredos remains in storage in the College. The East window may be viewed in high resolution in the series of seven short films - accompanied by music by King's alumnus Francis Grier - entitled Sword in the Soul. -
The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter In Action before St Paul's Cathedral with Search Lights and Stretcher Bearers
Charcoal c. 1940 30x24cm A World War II Civil Defence firefighter, with 'CD' armband operates a fire hose as stretcher bearers work behind him, St Paul's cathedral being illuminated by searchlights. A typical night-time scene from London during the 1940 Blitz. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
'Zero' Hans Schleger (1898-1976) Grow Your Own Food
Lithographic poster c. 1940 Printed by Fosh & Kosh Limited for HMSO 76x51cm A copy of this poster is in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. Click here for biographical details and other posters by Hans 'Zero' Schleger. Provenance: the estate of the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
H Clark
Design for a Country Residence (1925)
Pencil and wash 36 x 54 cm An excellent 1925 design for a country house. Clark uses a wash to depict the warm red of the bricks in his design. Condition: mostly very good; old, soft crease to top left. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more architectural designs. -
Bloomfields Car Showroom and Esso Garage, 88-106 Camberwell Road, London SE5
Gouache 39 x 52 cm A stylish gouache depiction of the Bloomfields Car Showroom, still extant as a car repair shop at 104-106 Camberwell Road. The artist completes the architectural perspective with brightly coloured mid-century cars and a mackintosh-clad gentleman. Condition: good; some wrinkling to paper and slight discolouration in areas. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more architectural views. -
Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe KBE, R.A, F.R.I.B.A. (1882-1974)
Lloyds Bank, Notting Hill Gate (c.1930)
Ink and wash 60 x 37 cm In original white-painted frame. Signed 'Edward Maufe, Architect' lower right; also signed 'Drawn by H A Townsend'. This bank, designed by Maufe, still stands; contrary to the flourishes of the architectural design, however, it was executed in a slightly more restrained style. Sadly, a gratuitously unattractive modern front now defaces the front of the original bank building. Maufe is probably most famous for his Guildford Cathedral, the Air Forces Memorial, and his work for the Imperial War Graves Commission, for which he received his knighthood in 1954. He served a five-year apprenticeship under William Pite and then attended St John’s College, Oxford as an undergraduate. He then studied Design at the Architectural Association. His architecture is notable for its strong arts and crafts influence; this likely arose from his having lived in The Red House, Bexleyheath, which Philip Webb designed for the most famous of the Arts and Crafts designers: William Morris. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
St Alban's Hall, Oxford
Engraving, 1675 25x35cm Now a part of Merton College For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Sun Valley
Original lithographic poster c. 1965 76x51cm Published by LooArt Press, Colorado The resort was the first destination winter resort in the US and was developed by W A Harriman, the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad to increase passenger numbers. The Austrian Count Schaffgotsch was instructed to find a suitable site and Sun Valley was born. Sun Valley was the site of the world's first chairlifts as single-seat chairs were installed in 1936 for the opening. The poster is believed to depict Sigfried 'Sigi' Engl, an Austrian who became director of Sun Valley Ski School in 1952 and made it famous for his innovative instructional methods. A few light creases and small spot towards top right. -
Design for Bianchini Ferier, Lyon for a scarf
Pen and Gouache c. 1940 75cm x 75cm "The prowess of our R.A.F. has not taken long to show a real effectiveness. The encounters of the last few days has sown to our enemy our supremacy. Difficult missions have been crowned with success by our different units. Flying sometime above 7000 feet in clouded skies surprising the enemy at a low altitude and exposing themselves to the enemy to protect the army. Their courage never falters." In the months prior to the Fall of France in May 1940 - before the Battle of Britain began - the RAF was in action in the skies above France and this design for a scarf depicts aeroplanes and pilots of the RAF. -
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Which? Have you a Reason for not Enlisting - Or only an Excuse for not Enlisting. Now!
Original lithographic poster c. 1914 75 x 50cm Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London Printed by the Abbey Press 32 & 34 Great Peter St Westminster SW Before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916, recruitment into the British Army was all by way of volunteering. Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, wanted to recruit almost 100,000 men per month and by the end of 1915 the supply of volunteers - despite excellent posters such as this one - was drying up. -
Anonymous
Draughts Eat Coal - Stop All Draughts! Save Fuel for Production
Lithographic poster 76 x 50cm Issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power Printed for HM Stationery Office by J Weiner Ltd, London WC1 Fuel was needed for production of munitions and machinery, as well as to drive the machinery. The population was therefore exhorted not to waste fuel. Successful Home Front propaganda posters, as Fougasse proved, needed to amuse the watcher; cartoonists were accordingly highly regarded for this task. -
'Zero' Hans Schleger Safety Week
Lithographic panel poster 1937 Published by London 'Safety First' Council Printed by Dangerfield Printing Company Ltd A copy of this poster is in the collection of the London Transport Museum. Click here for biographical details and other posters by Hans 'Zero' Schleger. Provenance: the estate of the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) Botanic Gardens Oxford
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 30x40cm 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' (c. 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (b.1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) Bodleian Library Oxford - aerial view
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 30x40cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) St Alban Hall, Merton College, Oxford
Aula St Albani Engraving (1675) 25x35cm St Alban's Quad was originally St Alban Hall, a medieval student residence that survived as an independent Hall of the University until 1882, when it was incorporated with Merton College. John Henry Newman briefly held the position of vice-principal in 1825. The St Alban's Hall buildings were reconstructed by Basil Champneys in 1905-1910. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) All Souls College, Oxford
Collegium Omnium Animarum Engraving (1675) 30x40cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) New College, Oxford
Collegium Novum Engraving (1690) mounted to board 32x49cm To see biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Kerry Lee (1903-1988)
'Cambridge' Original Poster Map c. 1965
45x58cm Original Vintage Lithographic poster Published by Pictorial Maps Limited, Kerry Lee's own company The first edition of this map was 1947; this is a later edition showing as it does Fitzwilliam College in its new location on the Huntingdon Road where it moved in 1963, but still referring to it as Fitzwilliam House - it became a college in 1966. Well known as a creator of pictorial maps of British cities from the mid 20th century, he generally draws a self-portrait in the bottom corner by his signature - as here, where he is seen (mustachioed and bearded, and clad in a green 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 2 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. -
Fred Taylor (1875-1963)
Hampton Court by Tram (1929)
Lithographic poster backed to linen 75 x 50 cm Published by Underground Electric Railways Company Ltd, 1929, printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle
Queens' College Cambridge, Sundial
Linocut, 1965 76x57 cm Signed numbered and titled in pencil. Printed on handmade Japanese Hosho paper by the artist at Editions Electo 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. -
Walter Hoyle
Jesus College Cambridge
Linocut, 1965 76x48 cm Signed and titled in pencil. Printed on handmade Japanese Hosho paper by the artist at Editions Electo 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. -
Ernest William Fenton (b. 1922)
Transport for London: Kew Palace, Eltham Palace, Hatfield Old Palace, Richmond Palace
Printed for London Transport Lithographic poster 40x25 inches Educated at Selby College of Art, Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art, William Fenton designed posters for London Transport from 1952-1976. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Hubert H. Clark
Design for a Country House (1947)
Watercolour and pencil 33x53cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Hubert H. Clark
Design for Slough Hospital
Original print 33x53cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Hubert Hennes (b. 1907)
New College, Oxford (sketch)
Crayon and watercolour Signed 14x21cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gaynor Chapman (1935-2000)
Nine Hundred Years Ago
1966 Lithographic poster for London Transport From the original printing but sold at the time in the London Transport poster shop hence overprinted 'This is a reproduction of a poster designed for London Transport." 101×63.5cm Chapman attended the Epsom School of Art and the RCA where she studied illustration and graphics. Her posters for London Transport are amongst her best works. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Austria: Osterreich
Lithographic poster 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Innsbruck Tyrol Austria
Lithographic poster 47x47cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Vorarlberg Austria
Lithographic poster Printed G Gistel 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Clifford and Rosemary Ellis
You can be sure of Shell
Chanter's Folly and Dry Dock, Appledore
Lithographic poster for Shell Mex BP (1937) 30x44" Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Condition: A/A- backed to linen. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Shell produced a large series of posters in the 1920s and 30s to encourage motorists to use their products in that early and golden age of motoring. They often commission artists not known for their commercial art, so their posters very often featured large and dramatic views of the British countryside and landmarks, inspiring motorists to travel further afield. Here the Ellises have taken a well-known landmark and applied avant-garde artistic techniques so stylising the view, turning, e.g. the clouds into an array of angular v-shaped blocks. Thomas Burnard Chanter (1797-1874) was owner of a fleet of sailing vessels and erected a signal tower ('Chanter's Folly') to give him advance notice of his vessels' arrival. It was demolished in 1952. The dry dock - Richmond dry dock - was built in 1853 and designed to hold two 'large' ships. It exists today and is Grade II listed. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Salzburg: Land of Happy Holidays
Lithographic poster 84x59cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Innsbruck: Austria
Lithographic poster Printed Tiroler Graphik 70x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Valley of the Shadow of Death Stained Glass Window Design for Wrekin College (1936)
Watercolour 9x6cm Design for TW Camm & Co., Smethwick, Birmingham. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Arthurian Stained Glass Window Design II
Watercolour 16x9.5cm Design for TW Camm & Co., Smethwick, Birmingham. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Lancelot and Elaine Stained Glass Window Design
Watercolour 13.5x11.5cm Design for TW Camm & Co., Smethwick, Birmingham. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Clarke Arms Design
Watercolour and pencil 22x17cm Design for TW Camm & Co. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Stained Glass Window Design with Red Sailing Ship
Watercolour 6.5x34cm Condition: Some spotting to image; mounted to board - see image. Click for biographical details and other works by Camm. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Heraldic Stained Glass Window Design with Oak Leaves
Watercolour 20x18cm Click for biographical details and other works by Camm. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Christ's College Cambridge Crest
Pencil and watercolour 15x11cm Design for TW Camm & Co. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence & Walter Camm
Design for Series of Four Arthurian Stained Glass Windows for Mercersburg Academy Chapel, Pennsylvania
1928 Watercolour over photographic background 10 x 24cm Provenance: The archives of TW Camm The Irvine Chapel of Mercersburg Academy was built as a war memorial for the First World War dead of the school. The dead were honoured in a series of stained glass windows that were commissioned from a series of the greatest stained glass designers of the time. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.