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Edwin La Dell ARA (1914-1970) Emmanuel College Cambridge Signed Watercolour
46x32cm (18.11 X 12.6 in)
In fine original hand-finished painted frame.
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Alfred Daniels RBA RWS (1924-2015)
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Gouache, watercolour and ink on board 40x56cm (15.7×22 inches). In a hand-finished cream frame. 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. -
Cyrus Johnson (1848-1925)
Two Dons Engaged in Conversation by Clare College Back Gates, Cambridge
Watercolour 13x22cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
Wren Bridge St. John’s College Cambridge
Watercolour and pencil 8.8×16.7cm A charmingly painted watercolour c. last quarter 19th century If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Walter Hoyle (1922-2000)
Senate House, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956-6)
Block print 72/75 Artist’s proof, published by Editions Alecto, London, 1966 46x89cm 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. -
Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn RA (1870-1951)
Clare College from the Backs
Watercolour Inscribed “To my friend H Thirkill Master of Clare” Signed “W de Glehn, 1940” 40x50cm De Glehn painted Henry Thirkill in a portrait that is in the collection of Clare College and may be viewed here. Thirkill was Master between 1939 and 1958 and the portrait was commissioned in 1947. A versatile painter, skilled at portraiture, landscapes and figures de Glehn is regarded as one of England’s premier Impressionist painters. His ability to portray lighting in a lively fashion and his vibrant use of colour combine to provide wonderfully rich paintings. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
Trinity College Bridge Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed in an antique-white-finished frame with gilt slip. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Attributed to Richard Bankes Harraden (1778–1862)
First Court, Pembroke College, Cambridge c1830
Watercolour, unsigned 27.5x39cm Pembroke prior to the demolition of the south range of Old Court in 1874 by Alfred Waterhouse. (His plans for the near-complete rebuilding of the College included the demolition of Wren’s chapel, but the Fellows’ caution prevented this.) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen of Corsham (1886 -1974)
Jesus College, Cambridge
Ink and pastel Signed and dated 30 May 1949; in artist’s original oak frame. 41x26cm (16.1×10.2 inches) 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. -
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Queens’ College Cambridge
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso. Oil on wood panel 21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in) £1850 Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourne, c. late 1940s An Italian who arrived in London around 1930, the Museum of London and City of London have a series of pictures Sansalvadore painted of war-damaged London. Click here for other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908)
The Old Library, St John’s College, Cambridge
Signed lower right “Fulleylove” Watercolour 19x13cm (7×5 inches) Please click here for the matching watercolour of the Kitchen Bridge together with biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908) The Kitchen Bridge, St John’s College, Cambridge Signed lower right “Fulleylove” Watercolour 13 x 19cm (5 x 7 inches) Please click here for the matching watercolour of the Old Library together with biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., P.R.A. (1880-1964)
Cambridge Revisited (1933)
Pen, ink, and wash24 x 35 cmSigned and dated lower right.Renowned for his architectural fantasies, Richardson here depicts Sir Christopher Wren revisiting the chapel he built in 1677. Wren is a Colossus, surveying not only the architecture of the chapel but the fantastical assortment of characters present in the quad. Seventeenth century lords, ladies, and scholars occupy the centre of the picture while 20th century tourists (on the left) watch the scene unfold.Richardson was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy, editor of Architects' Journal, founder of the Georgian Group and the Guild of Surveyors and Master of the Art Workers' Guild. He also received the Architectural Association’s Professor Bannister Fletcher Medal (an award for the study of post- Great Fire London architecture) in 1902. -
Alexander Wallace Rimington (1854–1918)
King’s College, Cambridge
Signed with initials and dated 1906 Watercolour 33x24cm (12.9×9.4 inches) Alexander Wallace Rimington A.R.E., R.B.A., Hon. F.S.A was Professor of Fine Arts at Queen's College, London. An etcher, illustrator, painter, and author he was most famous for inventing a musical instrument, the 'colour organ' that projected different colours in harmony with music. His first Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1880, over subsequent years he exhibited thirty-four works there, mostly topographical works related to his travels around Europe. He had regular shows at the Fine Art Society - seven between 1893 and 1912 - showing a hundred or more watercolours. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Richard Henry Wright (1857-1930)
Trinity Great Gate, Cambridge
Watercolour 47x39cm (frame) 25x18cm (9.8×7 inches) Originally from Hampshire, Wright was an artist who specialised in topographical views, mostly in Europe and Egypt. He exhibited at the RA from 1885 to 1913. In 1892 he married the artist Catherine Morris Wood, who also exhibited at the RA – but from 1880 until the 1920s. They lived at 2 Harcourt Buildings in the Inner Temple If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robert Tavener (1920 – 2004) King’s College, Cambridge Signed in pen lower right, titled verso 10 1/2 x 15 Watercolour and ink 27x38cm (10.6×14.9 inches) unframed Renowned print-maker Robert Tavener was born in London. After the war he was educated at the Hornsey College of Art, and became head of print-making at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in 1953. His work is held in over twenty-five public collections, including the Government Art Collection and the V&A. Here, in a rare watercolour, he shows his skill extended well beyond print making. For other works by Robert Tavener and biographical details click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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James Sargant Storer (1771–1853)
Trinity College Gateway from The Backs, Cambridge, c1820
Watercolour 19×13.5cm (7.4×5.3 inches) unframed This is the original watercolour for an engraving published as The Avenue by James & Henry Storer c.1820 in Delineations of Trinity College. The exquisitely detailed watercolour showing academical figures standing on Trinity Bridge as viewed from the backs is framed in its original nineteenth century gilt slip behind nineteenth century glass. Provenance: by decent from the artist. Storer was a topographer with an interest in ancient architecture, making drawings and engraving the plates himself. From 1814 he worked in conjunction with his eldest son, Henry, who predeceased him in 1837. They were buried next to each other at St James’s Chapel in Pentonville, now Joseph Grimaldi Park (named after the clown, Grimaldi who was buried there in 1837 and whose railed grave remains to this day). If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J R Stammers (1918-??) for Sir Albert Richardson
Design for New Buildings at Christ’s College, Cambridge
Inscribed ‘PROPOSED EXTENSIONS TO CHRIST’S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE’, ‘A.E. RICHARDSON E.A.S. HOUFE’ (lower left), ‘PERSPECTIVE BY J.R. STAMMERS’ (lower right) Pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour 63 x 86cm (25 x 34 inches) Provenance: The estate of Albert Richardson. Click here for other works by the artist and biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Map of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (1622) engraved by William Hole for Drayton’s Poly Olbion
London (1622) 24 x 31 cm (9 x 12 in) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gwen White
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Gouache 24x32cm Gwen White is author of Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers and this view of Trinity is painted with an architect’s eye for detail. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
William Alfred Pite (1860-1949)
King`s College Hospital, Denmark Hill general bird`s-eye view (1913)
Initialled H.M.F., signed and titled by William A. Pite F.R.I.B.A. (1860-1949), lower right, on board support with R.I.B.A. `Exhibition of Contemporary British Architecture` label, and architect`s label both mounted on verso Watercolour over pencil 46 x 92cm (26.25 x 18 inches) -
John Piper C.H. (BRITISH, 1903-1992)
Shadwell Park
(Levinson 277) Screenprint in colours, on Arches, signed and numbered. Printed by Kelpra Studio and published by Marlborough Fine Art, London. 510 x 690mm From the 'Victorian Dream Palaces' series of prints by Piper. 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. Condition: generally very good. A little discolouration to extreme margins hidden under mount. In hand-finished black-painted frame. -
John Piper C.H. (British 1903-1992)
Eye and Camera: Red, Blue and Yellow
(Levinson 317) Screenprint in colours, 1980, on Arches signed John Piper, a proof print aside form the numbered edition of 150, published by Kelpra Editions and the Tate Gallery. Framed in plain black hand-finished frame 400 x 605 mm Condition: Excellent - never previously framed. 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. -
David Smith RE (1920-1999)
Sulzer Engineering Works Switzerland II
Mixed media 40x33cm Please note we have two works in this series which are available, click here for the other. Framed in a grey wood frame. Born in Lowestoft he served in Bomber Command during the war and was commissioned to sketch on bombing raids over Germany. After the war, he taught at Chelsea School of Art and Camden Arts Centre. His biggest commissions were for Trinity House, recording Lighthouses, and Sulzer Engineering in Switzerland. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Smith RE (1920-1999) Sulzer Engineering Works Switzerland Watercolour 26×36.5cm Please note we have two works in this series, click here for the other one. Here abstract, modernist figures filled with energy, hinting towards perhaps Epstein-like characteristics, are illuminated by the forge providing a splash of colour. Born in Lowestoft he served in Bomber Command during the war and was commissioned to sketch on bombing raids over Germany. After the war, he taught at Chelsea School of Art and Camden Arts Centre. His biggest commissions were for Trinity House, recording Lighthouses, and Sulzer Engineering in Switzerland. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Anonymous, UK 1939
Keep Calm and Carry On
Ministry of Information Original poster, 1939 76 x 50 cm Very rare - we have traced copies in the Imperial War Museum collection but no other public collection. Scroll down for further information. Condition: A/A- Generally excellent, with three folds and a small crease as visible in photograph and tiny loss to left edge of middle fold. Deliberately not backed this to linen or over-restored as it is important that it does not look like a modern reproduction. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (British 1887-1965)
Noise Almost Always Annoys
Lithographic poster c1940 29.5 x 19.6 cm (11.5 x 7.5 in) printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd. “Published by King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London from a drawing kindly presented by Fougasse. No. 6. F&C Ltd.” Further biographical details and items by Fougasse are available here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (British, 1887-1965)
Careless Talk Costs Lives
Lithographic posters c1940 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) Set of eight and individual posters available, please call for current stock. Further biographical details and items by Fougasse are available here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Dig for Victory Now
Norman Wilson, c1940
Dig for Victory Now Lithograph 18x12cm (7×4.7 inches), price includes frame. When rationing was at its height, what could be more appealing than a basket of fresh vegetables. What more incentive could be required to Dig For Victory Now? If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Terry Frost (1915-2003)
Autumnal Landscape in Red, Black and Yellow
Watercolour 40 x 58 cm Signed and dated 1958 Framed in hand-finished grey 'Nicholson' butt-jointed frame. 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. In 1954 Frost moved to Leeds to become Gregory Fellow at the University. This began a period when he painted yellow and black and white paintings, inspired by the Yorkshire landscape. In 1958 he joined the London group and then moved to St Ives. This painting dates to this era. -
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. -
SEM (Georges Goursat) (1863-1934)
Cannes
Lithographic poster in colours, printed by Draeger, Paris c. 1930. 121x81cm (48×32 inches); backed on linen (condition A-) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Brendan Neiland (b.1941)
Original Designs for Intercity Posters - Edinburgh and York
Collage, spraypaint and cut out 91x58cm (36×23 inches) each 1991 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. -
Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954)
Original artwork ‘BP Ethyl for Snappy Engines' (1934)
Signed Pen, ink and collage 27x17cm (16.6×6.6 inches) Framed in a hand-finished black frame. Provenance: Sotheby's, sale of the Shell Archive 10 September 2003 lot 49. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor 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. -
Bryan de Grineau (1883-1957)
St John’s College, Oxford for The Illustrated London News
Front Quad
Signed and inscribed Pencil Drawing published in The Illustrated London News 18 June 1955 33 x 52 cm (13 x 20.5 in.) Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
St John’s College, Cambridge
Watercolour and pencil 13x18cm Probably early 19th century. This watercolour depicts St John's prior to construction of Hutchinson's 1831 New Court buildings; two figures wearing gowns and square caps are engaged in conversation by the Wren Bridge. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Thomas Martin Hawksworth (1853-1935)
Peterhouse Cambridge
Watercolour, framed. 17.5 x 26cm. Provenance: with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London A Londoner, Hawksworth was a member of both the RI and RBA. The V&A and British Museum both hold examples of his watercolours. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
King’s College Chapel Cambridge
King’s College Chapel Cambridge (1895) Watercolour 35×24.5cm Click to see St John's College by the same hand. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
St. John’s College Chapel Cambridge (1895)
Watercolour 34×24.5cm Click to see King’s College by the same hand. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
King’s College Cambridge from The Backs
Watercolour 24×16.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor 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. -
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-1999)
Oriel College Oxford
Lithographic print signed in pencil and numbered 1/500. Provenance: the artist's estate. 28 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in) From Casson's ever-popular Oxford series of prints. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here to see other posters from this series and for more information on Wings for Victory campaigns. -
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-1999)
Oriel College Oxford
Lithographic print signed in pencil, artist's proof print aside from the numbered series of 500. Provenance: the artist's estate. 28 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in) From Casson's ever-popular Oxford series of prints. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. -
Reginald Hallward (1858-1948)
Design for celebratory flag with cross
Pencil with gouache 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. -
Reginald Hallward (1858-1948)
Sketch for window in Earls Barton Church Northampton
Pencil and gouache 12×9.5cm 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. -
Reginald Hallward (1858-1948)
Sketch for window at St Etheldreda’s, Fulham
Pencil and gouache 12×7cm 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.