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M Gerling
St John's College, Cambridge
Pen and ink 15 x 26 cm Titled, dated June 1885, and signed lower right, all in ink. Condition: generally very good; painted on card; slightly toned. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of St John’s College, Cambridge. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1675)
Engraving 30 x 41 cm Loggan's view of Corpus from the 'Oxonia Illustrata', with later hand colouring. 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 very good; a little discolouration to paper. Later hand colouring. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. -
William Black Design for Sculpture (1966)
Watercolour 18 x 16 cm Signed and dated lower right. A design for a metal sculpture, on a blue- and grey-toned background. William Black was a St Ives artist who began his career as an architect. In the 1950s he came into money and ran away to St Ives to become a professional artist, studying under John Tunnard and associating with other artists like Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Black rarely put up work for sale during his lifetime and is known for his architectural and deconstructivist sculptures which espoused the modernist spirit of the St Ives group in the 1960s. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Modern British Art. -
Poulain
Messageries Maritimes - Union Française
Original vintage poster 98 x 63 cm Poulain's poster advertising the Messageries Maritimes (a French merchant shipping company) features a unicorn with a mane in the colours of the French flag. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen; evidence of a few short old edge tears now largely invisible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
William Verner Longe (1857-1924)
The University Challenge Whip (1900)
Watercolour 29 x 45 cm Signed and inscribed "Choristor ii just beats Loddon ii". Inscribed 'Cambridge University Meeting, Cottenham, March 1909' to mount. A lively racing scene by William Verner Longe, and English artist noted for his scenes of racing, hunting, and other equestrian activities. He was educated at the Ipswich School of Arts and then the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Condition: generally good; some spots to mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Cambridge pictures. -
Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884 - 1967)
"Merry England and worth a guinea a minute"
Lithograph 44 x 41 cm Signed in pencil lower left. Snaffles was one of the foremost sporting artists of his era, publishing many popular prints such as these: hunting pictures, racing scenes, and military subjects. Snaffles' distinctive drawing style is emphasised by his 'remarque' - sketches in the margin - and his witty titles. Condition: generally good; some age toning to backing paper. In original half-inch black frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other hunting pictures. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge II
Acrylic paint 56 x 65 cm cm Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. Trinity Hall was one of the first Cambridge colleges to admit women as students – it did not do so until 1976.6. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good, some crinkling as a result of using water-based paints on thin paper. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Trinity Hall. -
Lady Margaret Myddleton (1910 - 2003)
Harbour at Menton
Oil on canvas 32 x 45 cm Signed lower left, and titled on label to reverse. Myddleton's sunny view of this fashionable Cote d'Azur port sees two sailing boats make their way into the harbour, as three onlookers watch from the pier. Behind them rise the town's sun-drenched buildings, including the basilica of Saint-Michel-Archange, and the purple of the French Alps. Lady Margaret Myddleton was an accomplished painter, painting interiors, country houses, and landscapes (both home and abroad). This was likely painted while Lady Myddleton was holidaying on the French Riviera. Most of her watercolours are on display in Chirk Castle, Wrexham, the family seat of the Myddleton family since 1593 (although the castle's ownership was transferred to the National Trust in 1981). Lady Myddelton was the chatelaine of the castle for thirty years, and died there in 2003. She had married Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (Deputy Master of the Household to King George VI) in 1931, and the couple struggled to maintain the castle and estate. In 1978, Chirk and its 468 acres of parkland were bought for the nation through the National Land Fund and for the next three years were administered by the Welsh Office. In 1981 they passed to the National Trust, which now manages them. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more Modern British original painting. -
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Away by Green Line (1936)
Original vintage poster 103 x 63 cm A poster produced for London Transport illustrating the pleasurable destinations to be reached via Green Line Coaches. Sutherland's design depicts a scythe, a sheaf of wheat, and a farmer's sunhat - three promises of country life which the city-dweller might now easily access, thanks to the advent of British coach travel. Graham Sutherland OM was an English artist known for his romantic, abstract landscapes and portraits of public figures, including Churchill and the Queen Mother. Sutherland spent the 1920s mostly making landscape prints, but, following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s branched out into watercolours. He also undertook a few commercial commissions for posters, working for London Transport, Shell and others. He served as an official war artist in the Second World War, painting industrial scenes on the British home front. After the war he worked in oils and explored figurative painting. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other London Transport posters. -
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Away by Green Line (1936)
Original vintage poster 103 x 63 cm A copy of this poster is held by the London Transport Museum (1983/4/4500). A poster produced for London Transport illustrating the pleasurable destinations to be reached via Green Line Coaches. Sutherland's design depicts a pitchfork and a maize dolly - two promises of country life which the city-dweller might now easily access, thanks to the advent of British coach travel. Graham Sutherland OM was an English artist known for his romantic, abstract landscapes and portraits of public figures, including Churchill and the Queen Mother. Sutherland spent the 1920s mostly making landscape prints, but, following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s branched out into watercolours. He also undertook a few commercial commissions for posters, working for London Transport, Shell and others. He served as an official war artist in the Second World War, painting industrial scenes on the British home front. After the war he worked in oils and explored figurative painting. Condition: generally very good, one repaired short tear about 10mm long. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other London Transport posters. -
Wilfred Pettitt (1904 - 1978)
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Watercolour 17 x 27 cm A smartly-dressed couple and their two children enjoy the sunny and immaculately-lawned Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge. The man and woman admire the ornate fountain which stands sentinel in the middle of the court (it, along with the rest of Great Court, was erected by by Thomas Nevile, master of the college in the early 17th century). Their children, perhaps oblivious to the architectural majesty around them, amuse themselves by playing with the pigeons. Wilfred Stanley Pettitt was born in Great Yarmouth, and studied at the Great Yarmouth School of Art and the Norwich School of Art. In 1928 he showed at the Royal Academy Royal Academy for the first time, and his work was also exhibited by the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Cambrian Academy. In 1944 Pettitt became one of the founding members of the Norwich Twenty Group (a group of Norfolk artists who intended to raise the standards of local professional art). He died in Eastbourne in 1978. Condition: mounted to board; otherwise very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Trinity College, Cambridge. -
Gordon House (1932 - 2004)
Circle E
Lithograph 86 x 45 cm Signed, numbered 48/75, and titled in pencil below the plate. An excellent example of Gordon House's work: a modern design, influenced by art deco, in blue and yellow. Gordon House was born in Pontardawe, South Wales in 1932 and studied at Luton and St. Albans Schools of Art. He began working for advertising agencies in the 1950s and became a full-time artist in 1961, exhibiting several solo shoes. He designed for several leading London galleries, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and popular bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Several dozen Gordon House prints are held by the Tate. Condition: very good; backed to board. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other abstract lithographs by Gordon House. -
Gordon House (1932 - 2004)
Triangle D
Lithograph 86 x 45 cm Signed and titled in pencil below the plate. An excellent example of Gordon House's work: a modern design in tones of green, pink, and blue. Gordon House was born in Pontardawe, South Wales in 1932 and studied at Luton and St. Albans Schools of Art. He began working for advertising agencies in the 1950s and became a full-time artist in 1961, exhibiting several solo shoes. He designed for several leading London galleries, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and popular bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Several dozen Gordon House prints are held by the Tate. Condition: very good; backed to board. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other abstract lithographs by Gordon House. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge I
Acrylic paint 55 x 76 cm Signed in pencil lower right. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. Trinity Hall was one of the first Cambridge colleges to admit women as students - it did not do so until 1976. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good, a few handling marks. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Trinity Hall. -
Walter Ernest Spradbery (1889 - 1969)
Temple Church and Library after Bombardment (1944)
Lithograph 66 x 57 cm Walter Spradbery's poster for the London Underground depicting a bombed Temple Church; a rainbow strikes hopefully out of the church's remains, and the sun shines on the golden stone of the building. The full poster bears the legend 'The Proud City' above Spradbery's design, and, beneath it, a quote from Charles Lamb: 'So may the winged horse, your ancient badge and cognisance, still flourish!'. This is a fantastic piece of British and London history, as well as a fantastically designed poster by a notable 20th century artist. The London Transport Museum has a copy of the poster, reference 1983/4/5751. 'The Proud City' was a series of six posters, all designed by Spradbery. They were commissioned by London Transport in 1944 as a defiant celebration of London's surviving the Blitz, and each poster also included a literary quotation. Walter Ernest Spradbery was a designer, painter, and poet who lived through the First and Second World Wars. He produced posters for LNER, Southern Railways, and London Transport, and was noted for his fascination with architecture and landscape. He studied, and later taught, at the Walthamstow School of Art. He was a pacifist and campaigned for nuclear disarmament, serving in the Medical Corps during the First World War and painting scenes of warfare for its duration, as well as during the Second World War. His anti-war stance and the horrors he had witnessed as a medic fed into his post-war poster design, especially 'The Proud City' poster series. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Junkers "JU 52"
Aeroplane identification poster, published 1942 63 x 47 cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series; view them here - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed Tante Ju ("Aunt Ju") and Iron Annie) was a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers. Development of the Ju 52 commenced during 1930, headed by German aeronautical engineer Ernst Zindel. Its maiden flight was on 13 October 1930. Following the rise of Nazi Germany, thousands of Ju 52s were procured as a staple military transport of the nation. The Ju 52 was in production between 1931 and 1952. In a civilian role, it flew with over 12 airlines, including Swissair and Deutsche Luft Hansa, as both a passenger carrier and a freight hauler. In a military role, large numbers flew with the Luftwaffe, being deployed on virtually all fronts of the Second World War as a troop and cargo transport; it was also briefly used as a medium bomber. Additionally, the type was deployed by other nation''s militaries in conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War, the Chaco War, and the Portuguese Colonial War. During the postwar era, the Ju 52 had a lengthy service life with numerous military and civilian operators; large numbers were still in use by the 1980s. Even in the 21st century, several aircraft have remained operational, typically used for purposes such as heritage aviation displays and aerial sightseeing. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Army FW-189 "Flying Eye"
Aeroplane identification poster, published 1942 63 x 47 cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series; view them here - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu ("Eagle Owl") was a German twin-engine, twin-boom, three-seat tactical reconnaissance and army cooperation aircraft. It first flew in 1938, entered service in 1940 and was produced until mid-1944. It was nicknamed the “Flying Eye.” Patrolling the vast flatlands of Ukraine and Belarus, the Flying Eye was used extensively on the Eastern Front with great success. It was nicknamed "Rama" ("frame") by Soviet forces, in reference to its distinctive tailboom and stabiliser shapes, which gave it its characteristic quadrangular appearance. Despite its low speed, the Fw 189's manoeuvrability made it a difficult target for attacking Soviet fighters. When attacked, the Flying Eye was often able to out-turn enemy fighters by simply flying in a tight circle. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Royal Air Force Handley Page "Hampden" Bomber
Aeroplane identification poster, published 1943 63 x 47 cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series; view them here - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden is a British twin-engine medium bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was part of the trio of large twin-engine bombers procured for the RAF, joining the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and Vickers Wellington. The Hampden was powered by Bristol Pegasus radial engines but a variant known as the Handley Page Hereford had in-line Napier Daggers. The Hampden served in the early stages of the Second World War, bearing the brunt of the early bombing war over Europe, taking part in the first night raid on Berlin and the first 1,000-bomber raid on Cologne. When it became obsolete, after a period of mainly operating at night, it was retired from RAF Bomber Command service in late 1942. By 1943, the rest of the trio were being superseded by the larger four-engined heavy bombers such as the Avro Lancaster. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Army Fi-156 Fieseler "Storch"
Aeroplane identification poster, published 1944 63 x 47 cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series; view them here - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, meaning "stork", was a small German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II. It was notable for its excellent short-takeoff-and-landing performance and low stall speed of 31 mph.The Douglas Skymaster was a four-engine transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain (the Skytrain poster from the same series is also available in our storefront), the Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. The Storch was deployed in all European and North African theatres of World War II. In addition to its liaison function, a number were used to fly a battalion of Infantry Regiment Grossdeutschland behind enemy lines during the invasion of Belgium. In 1943, the Storch played a role in Operation Eiche, the rescue of deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from a boulder-strewn mountain-top near the Gran Sasso. Even though the mountain was surrounded by Italian troops, German commando Otto Skorzeny and 90 paratroopers used gliders to land on the peak and quickly captured it. However, the problem of how to get back off remained. A Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 helicopter was sent, but it broke down en route. Instead, pilot Heinrich Gerlach flew over in a Storch. After Mussolini and Skorzeny had boarded the aircraft, the Storch took off to 250 ft, even though the aircraft was overloaded. A Storch was the last aircraft shot down by the Allies on the Western Front. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Fairey Swordfish
Aeroplane identification poster, published 1942 63 x 47 cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series; view them here - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The Fairey Swordfish is a biplane torpedo bomber designed by the Fairey Aviation Company. Originating in the early 1930s, the Swordfish, nicknamed "Stringbag", was operated by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, it was also used by the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as several overseas operators, including the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and the Royal Netherlands Navy. It was initially operated primarily as a fleet attack aircraft. During its later years, the Swordfish became increasingly used as an anti-submarine and training platform. The type was in frontline service throughout the Second World War. Despite being obsolete by 1939, the Swordfish achieved some spectacular successes during the war. Notable events included sinking one battleship and damaging two others of the Regia Marina (the Italian Navy) during the Battle of Taranto, and the famous attack on the Bismarck, which contributed to her eventual demise. By the end of the war, the Swordfish held the distinction of having caused the destruction of a greater tonnage of Axis shipping than any other Allied aircraft. The Swordfish remained in front-line service until V-E Day, having outlived multiple aircraft that had been intended to replace it in service. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594)
Map of the North of Scotland (1683)
Engraving with later hand colouring 35 x 45 cm A fantastically characterful and detailed map engraving of the North of Scotland from 1683. The highly detailed and beautifully coloured map is inscribed to the reverse with a description of the parts of Scotland illustrated, called the ''Troisieme Table d''Escosse''. The map comes from the 1683 French edition of Gerardus Mercator''s Atlas Major, which was first published in 1585. Gerardus Mercator was the Flemish father of mapmaking. He was a skilled geographer, cosmographer and cartographer and is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines - an innovation that is still employed in today''s nautical charts. Mercator was a highly influential pioneer in the history of cartography and is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He is also widely considered the most notable figure of the school. In his own day, he was a notable maker of globes and scientific instruments. In addition, he had interests in theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and geomagnetism. He was also an accomplished engraver and calligrapher. Unlike other great scholars of the age, he travelled little and his knowledge of geography came from his library of over a thousand books and maps, from his visitors and from his vast correspondence (in six languages) with other scholars, statesmen, travellers, merchants and seamen. Mercator''s early maps were in large formats suitable for wall mounting but in the second half of his life, he produced over 100 new regional maps in a smaller format suitable for binding into his Atlas of 1595. This was the first appearance of the word Atlas in reference to a book of maps. However, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise (Cosmologia) on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of the Titan Atlas, "King of Mauretania", whom he considered to be the first great geographer. Mercator wrote on geography, philosophy, chronology and theology. All of the wall maps were engraved with copious text on the region concerned. As an example, the famous world map of 1569 is inscribed with over five thousand words in fifteen legends. Condition: a little spotting, primarily to margins. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
John Cromby (20th century)
Berean
Oil on board 38 x 49 cm Signed lower right. The Berean emerges from the horizon between a choppy sea and blue sky studded with clouds. The Berean was built by William Pile of Sunderland for Thomas B Walker of London in 1869, and was one of the fastest ships on the London-Tasmania run. The Berean was inward-bound from Langesund, Norway, with a cargo of ice, when she was struck by a foreign steamship and foundered on the 8th April 1910. In Cromby's painting, a grey-green headland emerges from the right of the picture. Cromby was a Liverpool-based artist, renowned for his paintings of Liverpool docks. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Cromby (20th century)
A Passenger Ship in Liverpool Harbour
Oil on board 34 x 59 cm Signed lower right. A liner steers between a bright blue sky and a deep blue sea. Small steamships sail nearby, and seagulls wind their way among the various vessels. In the background, Liverpool's skyline is silhouetted. Cromby was a Liverpool-based artist, renowned for his paintings of Liverpool docks. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gordon House (1932 - 2004)
Triangle E
Lithograph 86 x 45 cm Signed and titled in pencil below the plate. An excellent example of Gordon House's work: a modern design in several tones of blue. Gordon House was born in Pontardawe, South Wales in 1932 and studied at Luton and St. Albans Schools of Art. He began working for advertising agencies in the 1950s and became a full-time artist in 1961, exhibiting several solo shoes. He designed for several leading London galleries, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and popular bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Several dozen Gordon House prints are held by the Tate. Condition: very good. Mounted to board. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle (1922-2000)
St Catharine's College, Cambridge (1956-66)
Linocut 59 x 39 cm Signed lower right; inscribed and numbered 35/75 in pencil. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Yard and the Fry Art Gallery. Condition: very good. -
Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876-1964)
Worcester College, Oxford
Watercolour 26 x 38 cm Signed lower right. Gotch's watercolour highlights the verdant lawns and leafy foliage of one of Oxford's greenest and most beautiful colleges. Bernard Cecil Gotch was a Winchester born artist who is best known for his atmospheric watercolours of Britain's towns and cities (most notably Oxford). He moved to Oxford in 1927, painting many watercolours of the interiors and exteriors of Oxford’s many buildings. His works concentrate on the grand exteriors and interiors of the University's colleges, and he exhibited frequently - including an exhibition every term at Oriel College. His first notable commission was for the publisher Methuen, illustrating 'A Shepherd’s Life' by W H Hudson. Whilst in London he was invited to illustrate a book on the Public Schools of England (which was sadly never completed). He exhibited watercolours at the Fine Art Society and Lincolns Inn, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1952 Gotch was given an Honorary MA by the University of Oxford, and, after his death in 1963, a memorial was held for him at Oriel. Provenance: detailed on label to reverse. Condition: generally very good, painted on 'rough' paper; signed and titled to label. -
Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884-1967)
The Huntsman: "The 'oss loves the 'ound but I loves both"
Lithograph 47 x 43 cm Signed in pencil with Snaffles' bit blindstamp, in original 1/2" frame. Snaffles was one of the foremost sporting artists of his era, publishing many popular prints such as these: hunting pictures, racing scenes, and military subjects. Snaffles' distinctive drawing style is emphasised by his 'remarque' - sketches in the margin - and his witty titles. Condition: very good. Small chip to bottom centre of frame. -
Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) Islam Etching 35 x 48 cm (sheet size 55 x 68 cm) Nephew of the historian G M Trevelyan, Julian Trevelyan was educated at Bedales and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. After moving to Paris, Trevelyan studied engraving at Stanley William Hayter’s school, working alongside artists such as Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. He married the potter Ursula Darwin in 1934, and in 1935 they moved to Hammersmith, buying Durham Wharf beside the River Thames which was Trevelyan’s studio – and home – for the rest of his life. His wartime service was – like so many artists – as a camoufleur. A Royal Engineer from 1940-43, he served in North Africa and Palestine, forcing the German Afrika Korps to use resources against a dummy army whilst real tanks were disguised as more harmless equipment. In the desert, nothing could be hidden - but it could be disguised. Following the dissolution of his marriage in 1950, he married the painter Mary Fedden. Teaching at Chelsea School of Art, Trevelyan eventually became head of the Etching Department and his pupils included David Hockney and Peter Ackroyd. Condition: mounted to board. -
'Bisto for all Meat Dishes'
Original vintage poster 55 x 202 cm This original vintage poster is an excellent opportunity to acquire a piece of British advertising history. Bisto is an instantly recognisable brand today, and has been throughout the 20th century; the catchphrase on the poster here, "Bisto for all meat dishes" was used in the 1950s. The first Bisto product, in 1908, was a meat-flavoured gravy powder which rapidly became a bestseller in the UK. It was added to gravies to thicken them and give a richer taste and aroma. Invented by Messrs Roberts & Patterson, it was named "Bisto" because it "Browns, Seasons and Thickens in One". As of 2005, Bisto Gravy Granules had a British market share of over 70%. Nearly all British grocery outlets stock a Bisto product. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Queen's College, Oxford (1674)
Engraving, 30 x 41cm 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. Condition: good, crease bottom right hand corner. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edwin La Dell ARA (1914-1970)
St John's College Cambridge
Signed and titled Lithograph (1959)35x46.5cm
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. Condition: Good. -
Walther Koch (1875-1915) Zug Berg und Strassenbahn
Original lithographic poster (1914) 40x30" Printed in Zurich by Anstalt Gebr Fretz If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Julian Otto Trevelyan, RA (1910 -1988) Caius College II, Cambridge (1959/1962)
Signed by the artist and inscribed in pencil Artist's Proof, aside from the edition of 70. The edition consisted of 70 numbered proofs and 30 artist’s proofs. We also have listed one of the 70 numbered proof prints, which is in a purple colourway - rather than the blue here. 37x51cm (14.5×20 inches) This comes from Julian Trevelyan’s Cambridge Suite which consisted of 10 lithographs: Caius College, Caius College II, Christ’s College, Corpus Christi College, Downing College, Emmanuel College, Jesus College, Peterhouse, St Catharine’s College and Sidney Sussex College. The Government Art Collection has copies of several of the prints in this series. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Old crease that runs from top to bottom has been restored and is barely perceptible - see photograph. -
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990) 'Manhattan Mary IV'
Serigraph (Artist's Proof IL/L) Signed in pencil 70 x 56cm (sheet) 41.5 x 30.5cm (plate) The Russian born Romain de Tirtoff moved to Paris around 1912 to work as a designer, choosing the pseudonym ‘Erté’ based on the French pronunciation of his initials. He produced fashion plates for the designer Paul Poiret and signed a contract with Harper’s Bazaar that saw him design over 200 covers for the magazine. Costume and stage design followed in the 1920s, for the Folies Bergeres and similar revues in Paris, then in Hollywood for Louis B. Mayer. Erté’s distinctive and elegant style came to epitomise the Art Deco era; it is characterised by a combination of sharp geometric line - like the harlequin background to this print - strong colour planes and images of fashionable modern women with close-cropped hair and asymmetric hemlines. Art Deco enjoyed a revival in the 1960s, and it was from this point that limited edition prints began to be produced from Erté’s designs. ‘Manhattan Mary’ was a Broadway musical which opened at the Apollo Theatre, New York in September 1927, with set and costume designs by Erté. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
J F Barry Pittar (British 1880-1948) Tom Tower, Christ Church Oxford
Watercolour 15.5x13cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) View of Cambridge
Engraving after 1690, this is a slightly later Henry Overton printing, shortly after 1700 35x51cm Baptised in Danzig in 1634 Loggan's parents were English and Scottish. Studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658) he moved to London in the late 1650s producing the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Marrying in 1663 he moved to Nuffield, Oxfordshire in 1665 to avoid the Plague and was in 1668/9 appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford Colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. Oxonia illustrata was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion he commenced work on his equivalent work for Cambridge, Cantabrigia Illustrata which was finally published in 1690 when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. Oxonia illustrata also includes an engraving of Winchester College (sharing its founder – William of Wykeham – with New College) whilst Cantabrigia illustrata includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder – Henry VIII – with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist of that era as it was not until 1783 that the first living thing (a sheep, named Montauciel ‘climb to the sky’) was sent aloft by the Mongolfier brothers in a balloon. 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 the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in smaller numbers and it is thought largely no second edition was produced, although this frontispiece proudly claims to have been published by Overton and a pencil note on the print suggests 1715 as a date. 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. Edmund Hort New (1871-1931) produced a series of pen-and-ink drawings of views of Oxford that paid homage to Loggan showing the development of the city in the following two hundred years. They were turned into photoengravings by Emery Walker who published the series between . Probably no more than two hundred of each engraving were produced and the plates were destroyed in the blitz. The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (b.1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings again bringing Loggan’s vision up to date. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Some age toning as visible in photograph; usual handling wear and marks to edges. -
Major F A Molony (c. 1865 - ?) St John's College, Cambridge
watercolour, probably early twentieth century 7x10" Molony was member of the Royal Engineers and a talented watercolourist. 25 July 1882: Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. 1885: Served in the 10th Company, Royal Engineers during the Suakin Expedition. 22 October 1890: Promoted to the rank of Captain. 27 October 1899: Promoted to the rank of Major. Fought at Battle of Pieters Hill, in the Anglo-Boer war. 23 June 1902: Mentioned in Lord Kitchener's Despatches.m, If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) Liverpool Docks
Dated 1928 Inscribed to reverse Watercolour 28x37cm Muncaster's watercolours capture the English countryside feel with great competence and feeling. Here he records the docks at Liverpool, a busy scene with splashes of bright paint enlivening the otherwise dull smoky port. Liverpool Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. At the age of fifteen his career as a landscape painter began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war and he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at fifteen his mathematics was very weak and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camofleur. A master of capturing seascapes he was therefore able to hide huge ships ‘in plain sight’ with clever disguises. After the war he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Claude Muncaster was a watercolourist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes. He was born Grahame Hall, the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall who taught his son to paint from an early age; Grahame first exhibited his work aged 15 and a few years later was showing at the RA. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in ‘Rolling Round the Horn’, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, his aim was to be able to ‘paint ships and the sea with greater authority’. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founder member, and later President, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. During the Second World War, Muncaster served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) from 1940-44, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships, and also worked as an official war artist. In ‘Still Morning at Aden’ (1944) he depicts Allied warships in this safe anchorage in the Middle East; the back is stamped with Admiralty approval. In 1946-7 he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolours of the royal residences at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral; the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s ‘unerring instinct for a subject’, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and of Bradford. His career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Conservation mounted and wrapped in transparent sleeve for protection; slight toning to extremities and possibly some loss of colour from sky. -
'ER' Monogrammist St John's College Cambridge, the Wren Bridge from the River Cam
Watercolour c. 1900 35x25cm A highly accomplished watercolour of the Kitchen Bridge at St John's College. The artist has clearly had a change of heart, and visibly moved the person standing on the bridge, bringing a sense of movement to what is otherwise a still painting. Moreover the richness of the colour he has chosen for the brickwork brings a further element of surprise to the viewer. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Mounted to board, the occasional tiny spot to the sky as visible in photograph. -
Alfred Daniels (1924-2015)
Almshouses Canning Circus Nottingham
Conte and wash, 1975 33x62cm Signed and dated 'Alfred Daniels 1975' 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 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. -
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. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Abstract in Grey I
Gouache 21x12cm Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. 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. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Grey Abstract
Gouache 10x18cm Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. 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. -
P S Lamborn (1722-1774)
A view of the Public Library, the Senate House and St Mary's Church and the University of Cambridge
Engraving, 1768 40x54cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Uxbridge Station Poster c.1930 Printed by HMSO
Lithograph 100x62cm This four coloured lithograph was printed in extremely limited numbers for London Transport by HMSO. These maps detailed station entrances and were placed along the underground network to inform commuters exactly where they were in London. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, slight bruising to the very edges in places, and a little touching in of the red border. -
Hubert Mathieu
Téléferique du Béout: Lourdes (1952)
Lithographic poster 100x62cm Complete with a ski cable car in the place famous as a place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Andrew Ingamells (1956 - )
University College, Oxford
Etching 40 x 70 cm Signed lower right and numbered 15/100 lower left, both in pencil. Inspired by David Loggan’s celebrated engraving of the college, this view of Univ College belongs to Ingamells’ series of views of Oxford and Cambridge. The series took six months to complete and has long-since sold out from the publisher. 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, HM 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: excellent. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of University College, Oxford. -
Peter Collins ARCA (1923-2001) Still Life with Green Apples and Bottle
Oil on Board 49x59cm Provenance: The Artist's Studio A stongly-painted image, with a generous use of skilfully executed impasto and bright tones. A bowl of green fruit, probably apples, and with perhaps some lemons sits besides a slender and partly-drunk bottle, with an abstract tablecloth in red, white and blue behind. Click here for other items by the artist and for biographical details. -
James Priddey (1916-1980) FRSA RBSA
Merton College, Oxford
Watercolour and ink 35 x 42cm (13.7×16.5 in.) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. A Birmingham-based artist, educated at the Birmingham College of Art and member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Priddey had a very distinctive style which he applied to his topographical watercolours. -
William Williams (Welsh, active 1724 - 1733)
The First Map of Oxford (1733)
Engraving 47 x 54 cm In 1578, Ralph Agas drew the first ever map of Oxford, studded with the first colleges of the University. In 1733 it was engraved by William Williams for publication in the Oxonia Depicta, a book of illustrations depicting similar views as David Loggan's volume of engravings. Ralph Agas was an English surveyor and cartographer. He was born in Suffolk and lived there throughout his life, although he travelled regularly to London. He began to practise as a surveyor in about 1566, and has been described as "one of the leaders of the emerging body of skilled land surveyors". regular work consisted of drawing up local estate maps and surveys for a variety of clients. He was one of the first estate surveyors to move beyond the traditional practice of compiling purely written descriptions of landed property, and to supplementing them with measured maps. Condition: generally very good; a few marks to margins. Central fold as issued. 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. -
Margaret Waller (1916 - 1997)
The Oxford University Botanic Garden
Watercolour 35 x 51 cm Signed lower left. A watercolour depicting the serenity of Oxford's Botanic Garden. Koi swim just below the surface of the round pond and the garden stretches into the distance through a pair of stone arches. Margaret Waller was a mid-century artist and Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters. Condition: generally good; a little spotting to the sky. 'FIAL' added to signature later. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other non-collegiate views of Oxford. -
Louis Osman (1914-1996)
Architectural Perspective Design for a Shop Front
75x52cm Watercolour and pencil Signed and Inscribed Provenance: from the artist's estate Click for biographical details and other works by Osman. From Osman's time as an architectural student at the Bartlett School of Architecture. A proposed house stands in woodland. Osman was even more an artist than an architect and it shows with the quality of his drawings. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Autumn in Yellow and Brown
Gouache 27x15cm Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. 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)
They need spares to use their wings
Original poster c. 1943 76x51cm Printed for HMSO by Multi Machine Plates Ltd for the Ministry of Aircraft Production Damaged Spitfires are pictured waiting in a hanger for spares to arrive, encouraging the workers in the factory to work harder in order to keep the aeroplanes in the air. 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. -
Louis Osman FRIBA (1914 - 1996)
Proposal for St John's Smith Square (1953)
Watercolour 70 x 52 cm Signed in red crayon lower right. Louis Osman's proposal for the post-war, post-bombing redevelopment of St John's church on Smith Square. Osman had envisioned an interior with a ceiling painted by Picasso; sadly, this project was never executed. The church was bombed in 1941 and gutted by fire; subsequently, the church was a ruin open to the sky for over 20 years. It was saved by Lady Parker of Waddington, who formed the Friends of St John's in 1962 to raise money and restore the church to its former glory - a reconstruction in the style of the church's original architect, Thomas Archer. Osman was as much an artist as an architect. This is likely a portfolio piece from his time studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is as such a piece of architectural history as well as a beautiful Osman design. Osman was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group) by the Bartlett, and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson - we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled coffin that holds the copy of the Magna Carta on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Louis Osman FRIBA (1914 - 1996)
Proposal details for St John's Smith Square (1953)
Watercolour 74 x 46 cm Signed in red crayon lower right. Details from Louis Osman's proposal for the post-war, post-bombing redevelopment of St John's church on Smith Square. Osman had envisioned an interior with a ceiling painted by Picasso; sadly, this project was never executed. The church was bombed in 1941 and gutted by fire; subsequently, the church was a ruin open to the sky for over 20 years. It was saved by Lady Parker of Waddington, who formed the Friends of St John's in 1962 to raise money and restore the church to its former glory - a reconstruction in the style of the church's original architect, Thomas Archer. Osman was as much an artist as an architect. This is likely a portfolio piece from his time studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is as such a piece of architectural history as well as a beautiful Osman design. Osman was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group) by the Bartlett, and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson - we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled coffin that holds the copy of the Magna Carta on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Louis Osman FRIBA (1914 - 1996)
Proposal for St John's Smith Square (1953)
Watercolour 62 x 37 cm Signed in red crayon lower right. Louis Osman's proposal for the post-war, post-bombing redevelopment of St John's church on Smith Square. Osman had envisioned an interior with a ceiling painted by Picasso; sadly, this project was never executed. The church was bombed in 1941 and gutted by fire; subsequently, the church was a ruin open to the sky for over 20 years. It was saved by Lady Parker of Waddington, who formed the Friends of St John's in 1962 to raise money and restore the church to its former glory - a reconstruction in the style of the church's original architect, Thomas Archer. Osman was as much an artist as an architect. This is likely a portfolio piece from his time studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is as such a piece of architectural history as well as a beautiful Osman design. Osman was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group) by the Bartlett, and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson - we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled coffin that holds the copy of the Magna Carta on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Pierre Tairraz (1933 - 2000)
Chamonix - Mont Blanc - France
Original vintage poster 100 x 60 cm A view of the Téléphérique de la vallée Blanche cable car over Mont Blanc entices us to book a skiing trip to Chamonix. Pierre Tairraz was the fourth in line of the Tairraz family of mountain photographers, following in the footsteps of his father George, his father George, and his father Joseph. Between 1857 and 2000, four photographers, from father to son, invent and transmit the art of mountain photography. Their family name is Tairraz. Pierre was an exceptional climber and worked for 40 years photographing mountains, particularly the French Alps. Condition: generally very good; a few little edge tears and a slight marginal loss to top (all of which will disappear under a mount when framed). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage skiing posters. -
Valerie Thornton (1931 - 1991)
Ponte Vecchio, Florence (1972)
Etching and aquatint 33 x 20 cm Numbered 1/60 lower left, titled below, and signed and dated lower right, all in pencil. Here, Thornton muses on the dramatic differences in tone and texture between the water of the River Arno, the smooth paleness of the Ponte Vecchio, and the dark terracotta of the city's roofs. Her work is deeply concerned with material, and many of her etchings focus on eroded stone, emotive landscapes, and weathered architecture. Valerie Thornton was a British etcher and printmaker. She was born in London, but was evacuated to Canada with her two brothers during World War II. She returned to London in 1944 and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in 1949. From 1950 to 1953 Thornton studied under P.F. Millard at the Regent Street Polytechnic, then spent eight months at Atelier 17 in Paris. In the early 1960s, she moved to New York and worked at Pratt Graphic Art Center. In 1955, she succeeded Howard Hodgkin as assistant art teacher at Charterhouse School and in 1965 she became a founding member of the Print Makers Council. In 1970 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers. Thornton was a member of The Regent Street Group (a group of nine artists who studied together at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the early 1950s). The group also included Susan Horsfield, Renate Meyer, Michael Lewis, Ken Symonds, Philip Le Bas, and Peter Riches. Thornton's work is included in a number of major public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, and the Tate. Thornton died in 1991 in Chelsworth, Suffolk. Condition: good; slight but even age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures of Italy. -
Russian Aircraft Recognition Chart (c. 1940s - World War II era)
Original vintage poster 76 x 102 cm Published by the Ministry of Supply. Many of these aircraft would have been in use during World War II and very familiar to the Allies. A rather attractive recognition chart - in stark contrast to many similar posters which employ a less artistic approach. PE-8; TU-2; PE -2 & 3; IL-4; ER-4; A-7; YAK-3; YAK-9; IL-2; and LA-5 are the aircraft features. Condition: a few creases, otherwise generally good to very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage aircraft posters. -
Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)
See Britain from Her Roads
Original vintage poster 77 x 50 cm Signed lower left in the plate. Issued by the Tilling Group of Omnibus Companies. Jones' poster, with its two happy swans in the foreground, encourages us to travel Britain via coach (the coach tour was becoming ever more popular in 1950s Britain). The text reads: "You can travel anywhere in Britain by coach and bus ... ask for details of express coach services and touring holidays at any travel agent or Victoria Coach Station S.W.1." Barbara Jones was an English artist and writer. She studied at Croydon High School and then the Royal College of Art (where her contemporaries included John Piper, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and Edward Ardizzone), beginning in the Department of Engraving but transferring to the Department of Mural Decoration in her second year. She illustrated the pamphlet 'Bombed Churches as War Memorials' in 1945. Jones worked on several notable murals after the war, including for the Britain Can Make It exhibition in 1946, and the Enterprise Scotland exhibition in 1947. She also did commercial work for many companies, including P&O Ferries. In 1951 Jones co-curated Black Eyes and Lemonade, an exhibition of craft, folk, and popular objects at the Whitechapel Gallery. She was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and a member of the Society of Authors. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen; pin holes to corners. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Nathan - Jacques Nathan-Garamond (1910 - 2001)
Go by Train to Brittany (1956)
Original vintage poster 101 x 62 cm Printed in France for and by the French Railways. This charming and cheering poster, featuring a blue sailing boat on a sandy beach with brightly-coloured houses behind, encourages us to explore France by train and make a sojourn to Brittany. Jacques Nathan Garamond (born Jacques Nathan) was a French graphic designer. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and became the Director of Contemporary Architecture there. He then began his career as a graphic designer, specialising in posters and commercial illustrations. He was a founding member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, a society for graphic artists and designers. Condition: generally very good; stains to bottom corners and six enlarged pin holdes to corners and middles of sides. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Lithograph 77 x 56 cm Signed in pencil lower right. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. Selwyn College was one of the first Cambridge colleges to admit women as students - it did not do so until 1976. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. 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 Selwyn College, Cambridge. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Lithograph 77 x 56 cm Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. Selwyn College was one of the first Cambridge colleges to admit women as students - it did not do so until 1976. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. 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 Selwyn College, Cambridge. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Queens' College, Cambridge
Lithograph 72 x 56 cm Numbered 169/178 lower left, and signed lower right, in pencil. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. These views highlight the layers of history and architectural styles which make up a Cambridge college. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. 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 Queens' College, Cambridge. -
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Concorde
Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm A striking poster advertising the glamorous Concorde aircraft for British Airways. Concorde entered service in 1976 with Air France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from London Heathrow. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Valerie Thornton (1931-1991)
Bodleian Quadrangle, Oxford (1983)
Etching 24 x 35 cm Numbered 13/75 lower left, titled below, and signed and dated lower right, all in pencil. A very good example of Thornton's recognisable and unusual etching style. Her work is deeply concerned with material, and many of her etchings focus on eroded stone, emotive landscapes, and weathered architecture. Here, Thornton draws out the exceptional texture of the Bodleian Library's local stone. Valerie Thornton was a British etcher and printmaker. She was born in London, but was evacuated to Canada with her two brothers during World War II. She returned to London in 1944 and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in 1949. From 1950 to 1953 Thornton studied under P.F. Millard at the Regent Street Polytechnic, then spent eight months at Atelier 17 in Paris. In the early 1960s, she moved to New York and worked at Pratt Graphic Art Centre. In 1955, she succeeded Howard Hodgkin as assistant art teacher at Charterhouse School and in 1965 she became a founding member of the Print Makers Council. In 1970 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers. Thornton was a member of The Regent Street Group (a group of nine artists who studied together at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the early 1950s). The group also included Susan Horsfield, Renate Meyer, Michael Lewis, Ken Symonds, Philip Le Bas, and Peter Riches. Thornton's work is included in a number of major public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, and the Tate. Thornton died in 1991 in Chelsworth, Suffolk. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more works by Valerie Thornton. -
Adelboden
Original vintage poster 104 x 63 cm A fantastic original vintage poster advertising the Swiss ski resort of Adelboden, tucked away in the Bernese Oberland. Printed in Switzerland by Brügger AG. The photograph was taken by the Swiss photographers Emanuel Gyger and Arnold Klopfenstein. The pair were renowned for their captivating skiing images. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage skiing posters. -
Anonymous
Berlin (1955)
Lithographic poster 84 x 61 cm Original Vintage Poster Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche from Kurfürstendamm by Night A view of the 'Champs Elysee' of Berlin, the main shopping street in 1955. Although it was designed just ten years after the Second World War's end, when much of the city still bore the scars of devastating conflict, the poster still manages to evoke a pre-war idea of Berlin (especially seen through the glamorous lens of the postwar 1950s). Fashionable figures cross the street, the cars are the latest and brightest, and the humming city is reflected in the wet road. This poster was designed to be overprinted with the name of the local airline. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Backed to linen. Small loss to bottom left corner in margin; a little white spotting to the 'Berlin' panel. -
Attributed to Joseph Nash (1808-1878) 'Ruins of an Italian Villa'
Watercolour 24 x 29cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Suisse Chutes du Rhin
Original lithographic poster (1925) 40x25" If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, a little edge wear. -
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. -
Ente Nazionale Italiano per il Turismo (The Italian Government Tourist Board)
PISA - ITALY - LAND OF YOUR DREAMS
Lithographic poster 101 x 63.5 cm If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Pin-holes to corners; not backed. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Snakes
Gouache, 1940s/1950s 21x35cm In a Nicholson butt-jointed frame Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their 'New Naturalists' series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the - otherwise excellent - content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
Derek Wicrow
The Telecinema - Telekinema - National Film Theatre Southbank (1957)
Pencil drawing, squared for transfer. 40x51cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. The Telecinema was built for the 1951 Festival of Britain, situated between Waterloo Station and the Royal Festival Hall. Whilst press releases referred to the Telecinema, the outside of the building proclaimed Telekinema. Wells Coates were the architect, creating - in the words of Today's Cinema - "A fly-away linear design [with a ] gay façade and bold modern stare". Seating 410 people it was the first cinema in Britain with both 3D sound - provided by an array of speakers behind the screen and allowing the sound to come from the direction of the person speaking - and 3D vision. It was demolished in 1957 when the National Film Theatre moved to its current location - renamed in 2007 as BFI Southbank.
The interior of the Telecinema
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Clifford Ellis
Sosicles II (1934)
Watercolour costume design for theatre production. 32x18cm 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. -
Andrew Ingamells (1956 - )
King's College, Cambridge
Etching 54 x 48 cm Signed lower right in pencil. Inspired by David Loggan’s celebrated engraving of the College in 1680, this view of King's College was the first of Ingamells’ series of views of Oxford and Cambridge. It took six months to complete and has long-since sold out from the publisher. 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, HM 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: excellent; in wood frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of King's College, Cambridge. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919-1993)
Christmas (c.1940)
54 x 74 cm Watercolour over linocut Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, Miller taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple set up home in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as The Living World and Boff’s Book of Gardening. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056 Condition: Good - some creases. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919-1993)
The Old Bicycle (c.1940)
46 x 62 cm Gouache on paper Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, Miller taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple set up home in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as The Living World and Boff’s Book of Gardening. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056 Condition: Good -
'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. -
Herbert Harris (1888 - 1962)
Bovril - vi terra a galla ("Bovril keeps you afloat")
Lithograph 128 x 90 cm An original vintage poster advertising Bovril. The poster was designed in 1920 by notable poster artist Herbert Harris for the advertising agency S H Bentley. It originally read 'Bovril prevents that sinking feeling' in English. Bovril, says the poster, is the ultimate comfort, and will keep you going in adversity. The Italian version of the poster, published in the 1930s, instead supplied "Bovril - vi terra a galla" - "Bovril keeps you afloat". German and French versions with appropriate idioms were also produced; these European versions of the poster were Musso & Co. and designed by the Max Dalang Atelier, both in Zurich. Condition: generally very good; repaired tear from edge approx 4" long towards bottom on left side, essentially invisible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Robert Tavener (1920-2004) New Court St John's College Cambridge
Signed and numbered 12/50 Lithograph 40×52 cm c. 1970 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. Condition: Good. -
Colin Moss (1914 - 2005)
The Cedars, Kensington
Watercolour and gouache 57 x 40 cm Signed and dated '50 lower right. Moss' view of the Cedars, complete with passers-by and a stormy, jagged sky. Colin Moss was a noted British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and teacher who served as a camoufleur during the Second World War. Moss was born in Ipswich but grew up in Plymouth following the death of his father at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Moss studied at the Plymouth Art School from 1930 to 1934 and then went on to the Royal College of Art, where he studied under Gilbert Spencer and Charles Mahoney. He worked on murals for the British Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. During the war, Moss made a series of watercolours depicting his time as a camoufleur. He had designed the camouflage scheme for Stonebridge Power Station in Wembley, and produced several watercolours of the camouflaged structure. These pictures, as well as several others painted during his WWII deployment, are now held by the Imperial War Museum, having been purchased by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. In 1947 Moss' military service ended, and he became a teacher at the Ipswich School of Art. He had solo exhibitions at the Kensington Art Gallery in 1951 and the Zwemmer Gallery in 1955, and his work began to be acquired by the national collections. He became a founder member of the New Ipswich Art Group in 1958, and the Six in Suffolk Group in 1976. In the 1970s he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society, and retrospective exhibitions of his work were held at various British art galleries throughout the 1980s. He continued to hold numerous solo exhibitions after his retirement, and taught artists Brian Eno and Maggi Hambling. Provenance: "Britain in Watercolours" exhibition. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gladys Williamson
Lady and Parrot
Original Painted Design for Poster Collage and Gouache43x38.5cm
If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, slight wear to blue background some spotting to rim of dress. -
Lance Cottermole A Map of Northumberland & Durham, UK
1949 Lithographic poster Published for Railway Executive 102x63cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Backed to linen, repaired tear, presents very well. -
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. -
W H Tittel, 1938
Rastkogelhütte
In mint, unissued condition. A+ With 24 beds, 16 mattresses, central heating, electric light and quite clearly all modern conveniences, a good night’s sleep was assured for all guests. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Lennox Paterson (1915 - 1986)
Noah's Ark for Clyde Shipping Company Ltd
Original vintage poster 101 x 77 cm A charming poster portraying a Clyde Shipping Company vessel as Noah's Ark, with its animals two by two. Lennox Paterson was a painter and printmaker who studied at Glasgow Academy and then the Glasgow School of Art. He was a member of the Society of Artist Printmakers and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Scotland. Condition: generally very good. Near-mint condition. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
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. -
George Frederick Nicholls (1850-1935)
Magdalen College from the Cherwell, Oxford
Watercolour 37x24cm Early twentieth century. Born in Great Saughall in Cheshire - and dying in Chester - he subsequently lived in Worcestershire and Oxfordshire. Many of his paintings are of the Cotswolds and Oxford, and he is best known for his topographical paintings. He painted the illustrations for a series of county books for A & C Black, including Cornwall (1915) and Cotswolds (1920). If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Louis Masquelier (1898-1945)
The Telephone
L. Masquelier/ Lorraine Sqdrn. (2nd TAF Security Poster No.4) Lithographic Poster 55x34.5cm Issued by the 2nd Tactical Airforce ('TAF'). This was a combination of both fighter and bomber units formed for the purposes of supporting the army in the 1944 invasion of Europe. The artist was a Sergent-chef (sergeant) in No 342 (Lorraine) Squadron RAF, a Free French Squadron transferred back to the Armée de l'Air in December 1945. An air gunner - and relatively old at 41 at the beginning of the war - he flew on many operations, also serving as cine-cameraman thanks to his artistic skills. He died on 28 May 1945, after the end of the war. Here a Frenchman has depicted that most English of items, Giles Gilbert Scott's K2 telephone box warning members of the 2nd TAF to be careful when using the telephone. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robert Tavener (1920-2004) Magdalen College, Oxford (artist’s proof) Signed Screenprint 69×48 cm (27.1×18.8 inches) Framed in a gilt 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. -
William Alistair MacDonald (1861-1948)
Middle Temple Lane, London
Signed Watercolour 26x17cm The buildings of Middle Temple Lane were constructed between 1684 and 1780. MacDonald is best known for his scenes of London landmarks. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edwin La Dell (1914-1970) King's Parade, Cambridge
Signed in pencil and titled 35x47cm A copy of this print is in the Government Art Collection. Lithograph Born in Coventry, La Dell's father was a Sheffield-born bookbinder. After study at Sheffield School of Art, he was the winner of a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where the head of print making was John Nash (from 1934 to 1940). La Dell became head of lithography there from 1948 until his death. During the war he was an official war artist and a camofleur, but he is probably best known for his lithographs of Oxford and Cambridge that he published himself, together with those he published for the School Prints scheme and Lyons Tea Rooms. His works are widely held in the public collections, including the Royal Academy and the Government Art Collection, the latter having a copy of this print. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: In conservation mount, some age toning to print as visible in photograph. -
Edwin La Dell (1914-1970) King's College from the Copper Kettle, Cambridge
Signed in pencil and titled 32x48cm A copy of this print is in the Government Art Collection. Lithograph Born in Coventry, La Dell's father was a Sheffield-born bookbinder. After study at Sheffield School of Art, he was the winner of a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where the head of print making was John Nash (from 1934 to 1940). La Dell became head of lithography there from 1948 until his death. During the war he was an official war artist and a camofleur, but he is probably best known for his lithographs of Oxford and Cambridge that he published himself, together with those he published for the School Prints scheme and Lyons Tea Rooms. His works are widely held in the public collections, including the Royal Academy and the Government Art Collection, the latter having a copy of this print. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: In conservation mount, some age toning to print as visible in photograph. -
Edwin La Dell
Queens' College, Cambridge
Lithograph Signed in pencil and numbered 33/50 21x46.5cm A copy of this print is in the Government Art Collection. 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. -
Anonymous Design for Triptych Above Alta
British, c. 1920s Gouache 38x28.5cm Christ Pantocrator stands in the middle of the design, surrounded by the four evangelists - represented by the Eagle, Bull, Lion and Angel - together with two seraphim. This is a well executed design for an as-yet unidentified location. At the bottom is a pencil description as an 'unfinished sketch'. Condition: Generally very good condition. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Peter Spendelowe Lamborn (1722 - 1774)
Trinity College Bridge and Library and Part of St John's College, in the University of Cambridge
Engraving 37 x 52 cm Peter Spendelowe Lamborn was an English engraver and miniature painter. He studied engraving under Basire and worked in Cambridge, where he obtained some note as an engraver. Condition: generally good; some discolouration to paper, surface dirt particularly to margins. Mounted to board and previously mounted with plate mark under mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Cambridge. -
'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907 - 1992)
Samuel: poète du verbe et de l'image (1992)
Original vintage poster 95 x 65 cm This poster advertises an exhibition of Samuel's work, entitled 'Samuel: poet of word and image' and held in Grenoble in 1992, the year of the artist's death. It features Samuel's 1987 Au Vrai Sommet ('To the True Summit') as its image; the lone figure gazing out into the mountainous blue, gaunt and clad only in a loincloth, seems to represent Samivel's outstanding but isolated work. Samivel was a writer, an artist, a photographer, an explorer and more. In 1948 he accompanied Paul Émile Victor on the first French Greenland expedition, making three documentary films in the process. His friends included Théodore Monod and Gilbert André - the latter the mayor of Bonneval-sur-Arc and one of the founders of the Vanoise National Park - and with them and others he spent his whole life aiming for the protection of the imperilled countryside. The graphic artist side of him had a life-long fascination with high mountains, and his illustrated books and series of posters of the French Alps have long been popular. Condition: generally very good; faint mark to left hand side level with person; small edge crease to left. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of St John’s College, Cambridge. -
David Klein (1918 - 2005)
Spain - Fly TWA
Original vintage poster 102 x 63 cm Klein's poster for Trans World Airlines (TWA) advertises flights to Spain. His design features two matadors in rich traditional address, in a stadium where a bullfight is presumably about to take place; a TWA plane flies overhead. David Klein was an American artist notable for his posters. He designed posters for the US Army, many and various Broadway productions, Trans World Airlines, and many more commercial clients. In the late 1950s and early 1960s his travel posters became iconic images of the era of commercial aeroplane travel. One of his posters was added to the MoMa's collection in 1957. Condition: good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Leslie Carr (1891 - 1969)
Wellington Bomber
Gouache 23 x 30 cm Signed lower right. A Wellington Bomber set against a torrid blue sky. The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its geodetic airframe fuselage structure, which was principally designed by Barnes Wallis. Development had been started in response to Air Ministry Specification B.9/32, issued in the middle of 1932, for a bomber for the Royal Air Force. This specification called for a twin-engined day bomber capable of delivering higher performance than any previous design. Other aircraft developed to the same specification include the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and the Handley Page Hampden. During the development process, performance requirements such as for the tare weight changed substantially, and the engine used was not the one originally intended. The Wellington was used as a night bomber in the early years of the Second World War, performing as one of the principal bombers used by Bomber Command. During 1943, it started to be superseded as a bomber by the larger four-engined "heavies" such as the Avro Lancaster. The Wellington continued to serve throughout the war in other duties, particularly as an anti-submarine aircraft. It holds the distinction of having been the only British bomber that was produced for the duration of the war, and of having been produced in a greater quantity than any other British-built bomber. The Wellington remained as first-line equipment when the war ended, although it had been increasingly relegated to secondary roles. The Wellington was one of two bombers named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel with the Wellington; the two aircraft shared around 85% of their structural components. Many elements of the Wellington were also re-used in a civil derivative, the Vickers VC.1 Viking. 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 Second World War pictures. -
Raymond Myerscough Walker (1908 - 1984)
To Build for Prosperity - Save Now
Original vintage poster 74 x 49 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee London, the Scottish Savings Committee Edinburgh, and the Ulster Savings Committee Belfast. Printed For HM Stationery Office By Thomas Forman and Sons Ltd, Nottingham. This posters makes use of Myerscough Walker's original painting of a church bombed in the Blitz, with new buildings being constructed behind. Even in the face of war and destruction, Britain builds itself up to prosper - and, by saving, so can we. Myerscough Walker was an architectural draughtsman. He trained at Leeds School of Art and went on to the Architectural Association in London. In 1931 he won the Tite prize and was celebrated in his career for his skill as a draughtsman – as well as architect, writer, artist, sculptor and stage designer. He worked with Berhold Lubetkin, the significant modernist architect, for several years. Condition: generally very good; the odd gentle crease. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
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. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Queens' College, Cambridge
Lithograph 72 x 56 cm Proof print aside from the numbered edition of 178. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. These views highlight the layers of history and architectural styles which make up a Cambridge college. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. 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 Queens' College, Cambridge. -
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Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge with Blue Sky
Lithograph 76 x 56 cm Numbered 3/50, and signed lower right, in pencil. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. Trinity Hall was one of the first Cambridge colleges to admit women as students - it did not do so until 1976. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good, the odd very short tear and handling mark affecting outer few millimetres of margin. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Trinity Hall. -
Johannes 'Joan' Blaeu (1596 - 1673)
Oxonium Comitatus, Vulgo Oxfordshire (1662)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 38 x 50 cm A decorative map of Oxfordshire by the celebrated Dutch mapmaker and artist Joan Blaeu, (son of the cartographer Willem Blaeu). Two Oxford scholars flanks the cartouche which declares the map to be of Oxonium (that is, Oxfordshire), and the design also features the arms of the British Royal Family, King Alfred, and the University of Oxford. Sixteen colleges crests border the map. Blaeu moved to Amsterdam in 1920 to join the family firm of mapmakers. In 1635, the business published the Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus in two volumes - the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century, and the venture for which the Blaeu were most famed. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638; Joan became the official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company, as his father had been before him. Condition: mostly very good; area of toning to top left where coloured to reverse. Good oak frame. Framed with reverse visible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other antique maps. -
K Edmonds
Countryside Scene
Watercolour 24 x 35 cm Signed lower right. A blue- and green-hued landscape, where earth blends into sky. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Lithograph 76 x 56 cm Signed and numbered 4/50 in pencil. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. Trinity Hall was one of the first Cambridge colleges to admit women as students - it did not do so until 1976. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good; a few handling marks. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Trinity Hall. -
Louis Osman FRIBA (1914 - 1996)
Staunton Harold: Restoration of the Organ (1953)
Pen, ink, and watercolour 63 x 63 cm Titled below, signed lower right, and labelled in Osman's hand. Osman's architectural design for the restoration of the organ at Staunton Harold Church, part of the Staunton Harold estate. The church, known as the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, is a 1653-built Gothic chapel. It was commissioned by Sir Robert Shirley (the Shirley family were Anglicans and Royalists, and the ornate design of the church is likely why Sir Robert was imprisoned under Oliver Cromwell). Osman was as much an artist as an architect. This is likely a portfolio piece from his time studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is as such a piece of architectural history as well as a beautiful Osman design. Osman was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group) by the Bartlett, and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson - we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled coffin that holds the copy of the Magna Carta on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. Condition: some age toning, and signs of having been a working drawing. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robin Furness (born 1933)
The Three O'Clock Fox - Dobinson's Covert (1972)
Oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm Signed lower right. A delightful oil painting of the Raby Hunt at Bedburn by Robin Furness, former MFH of the Bedale Hunt and noted painter of hunting scenes. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
After Ernest William Haslehurst (1866 - 1949)
E Staircase, Second Court, St John's College, Cambridge (circa 1915)
Watercolour 33 x 22 cm Haslehurst's watercolour of a staircase at John's. The artists captures the quintessential Cambridge combination of dark wood and old stone, focusing on a beautiful but overlooked passageway in the college. Light streams in from the court. Second Court was built in the years immediately after 1599, to the designs of Ralph Symons of Westminster and Gilbert Wigg of Cambridge. The harmonious proportions and local brickwork of the Court in general make it the finest example of this style of architecture in Cambridge. Ernest William Haslehust was an English landscape painter and book illustrator who worked in watercolours. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC), and exhibited regularly at many venues including the Royal Academy in London. He also designed posters for the LNER and LMS railway companies, and his art was featured in many magazines of the day including the Illustrated London News and The Tatler. His painting of this view was featured in the illustrated book of Cambridge by Noel Barwell (Blackie & Son) 1910, and the artist of this painting has recorded the view from the same corner. Condition: very good; some light spotting. Handsome antique frame which bears some signs of age. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
The Mathematical Bridge, Queens' College, Cambridge
Watercolour 27 x 18 cm A delightful watercolour of Cambridge's famous Mathematical Bridge. Figures punt under the bridge and the buildings of Queens are reflected in the serene waters of the River Cam. Kate Hillman of the Cambridge University Engineering Department notes that: "One of the most recognisable structures on the Cam, Queens' College bridge was originally built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger. Since then it has been rebuilt twice to the original design of William Etheridge, once in 1866 and again in 1905. In 1866 the bridge deck was changed from a stepped design to the current sloped deck. In 1905 a complete rebuild of the bridge was required due to weathering of the original oak structure. stories have suggested that a group of students (or professors, depending on the storyteller) disassembled the bridge to discover how it stood up and then couldn't put it back together. The bridge was supposedly then rebuilt using rather prominent bolts." Condition: very good; gilt frame has some age. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Attributed to Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855)
Dinan Tour de l’Horloge (Dinan Clock Tower)
Watercolour 28 x 21 cm A spirited watercolour of Dinan, Brittany. Dinan's famous clock tower looks over a French street scene: men, women, and children weave through the town's half-timbered houses, shops, and ateliers. The characterful mediaeval stonework and architecture of the town are paramount, and the artist adds a bright blue hue to his depiction of Dinan's roofs. Dinan is a walled medieval Breton town and commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of northwestern France. Enclosed by nearly three kilometres of ramparts, the town and its 14th-century castle proudly overlook the Rance river. Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter famous for his watercolour landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Watercolour Society (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 the Society's President. In 1824 he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon, alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable. Examples of his work are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and other major museums in Britain. Condition: good. Some spotting to sky; handsomely framed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Charles Paine (1895-1967)
Army Map of England (1944)
Lithograph 99 x 75 cm Published for the National Savings Committee in London, the Scottish Savings Committee in Edinburgh, and the Ulster Savings Committee in Belfast. Printed at Field Sons & Co. Ltd., Bradford, for His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. Signed lower left in the plate. 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. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Per Arnoldi (born 1941)
Copenhagen: Jazz Center of Europe (1972)
Lithographic poster 99 x 61 cm Per Arnoldi was born in Copenhagen in 1941. He is a Danish designer and artist most famous for his prolific commercial poster art. Arnoldi is a lifelong fan of jazz, and, as well as having created many jazz-related posters, he hosts monthly jazz radio shows and occasionally tours with a jazz trio. This bold and dynamic poster is typical of Arnoldi's jazz designs. He notably uses block primary colours and simple, often silhouetted, compositions. The Tourist Association of Copenhagen commissioned the poster in order to encourage tourists to visit the city and its musical haunts. The saxophonist silhouetted in the image is thought to be a representation of Stan Getz, the American jazz saxophonist who died in 1991. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Richard Beer (1928-2017) St John's College, Oxford (1964-65)
Colour etching and aquatint on Velin Arches, published by Editions Alecto 58 x 43 cm Full sheet size 73 x 55.5 cm Signed, titled and numbered 19/100 Click here for biography and other works by this artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Print in good condition, margins well outside platemark show some discolouration and handling marks which will be hidden behind mat/mount. Mounted to board. -
Robert Tavener (1920-2004) Jesus College Gateway Cambridge
Signed and numbered 10/50 Lithograph 54.5 x 39 cm c. 1970 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. Condition: Good. -
Richard Beer (1928-2017) Merton, Oxford (1964-65)
Colour etching and aquatint 45x60cm 68x85.5 including frame, UK shipping only Signed and numbered 44/100 Click here for biography and other works by this artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Sassi
Italian Line Societa di Navigatione Italia
Original Vintage Poster 97.5x61cm c.1950s A wonderful example of Italian surreal poster artwork, with a fish made from fruit and vegetables and a very sleek modern ship beneath. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Mounted to board, some areas of repair as visible in image towards bottom, overall good. -
After Ettore Tito (1859-1941) c.1920s A set of four pochoir prints: 'Les paroles s'envolent les ecrits restent'; 'On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi'; 'Qui trop embrasse...'; 'Aide-toi le ciel t'aidera'
23.5 x 16.5 cm (to mount) Ettore Tito (1859-1941) Tito trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and later became a professor there, known for his landscapes and scenes of traditional life in the Veneto region, as well as producing several larger mythological murals notably for the Villa Berlinghieri in Rome and the Chiesa degli Scalzi in Venice. He associated with an expatriate artistic milieu that included John Singer Sargent and Isabella Stewart Gardner. However, in the 1920s he also produced these pochoir prints of emancipated women for a French magazine which were considered rather risqué at the time! If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent, mounted. -
W. A. A. Cox ARIBA Architectural Design for a Factory in the United Kingdom
Watercolour, pencil 53x64 cm Signed and dated, lower right 'W. A. A. Cox ARIBA 1966' If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Britain Land of History Original Vintage Poster c. 1960
Published by the British Travel and Holidays Association and printed in Great Britain by Harrison and Sons Ltd 59/60.14 'Throughout the British Isles can be seen many interesting castles, royal palaces and country houses which have played a part in Britain's history. This is an artist's impression of Hampton Court Palace beside the River Thames.' If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good condition, a few very short repaired edge tears and the odd marginal crease. Mounted and framed the edge tears will not be visible. -
Eric Fraser For Progress in the Future Save Now
75x51cm Original Vintage Poster Issued by the National Savings Committee If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Backed to linen, small edge tears to right side as visibile in image. -
Richard Beer (1928-2017)
Christchurch, Oxford (1964-65)
Signed and titled, and numbered 24/100 Colour etching and aquatint on Velin Arches, published by Editions Alecto 64x48cm Click here for biography and other works by this artist. If you are interested 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. -
Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988)
Father Thames (1969)
Etching and aquatint, signed, numbered 53/75 35x48cm 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. -
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. -
1942 RAF General Hotspur II
Aeroplane identification poster, published 1942 63 x 47 cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series; view them here - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. A particularly unusual style of aeroplane recognition poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The General Aircraft GAL.48 Hotspur was a military glider designed and built by the British company General Aircraft Ltd during World War II. When the British airborne establishment was formed in 1940 by order of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it was decided that gliders would be used to transport airborne troops into battle. General Aircraft Ltd were given a contract by the Ministry of Aircraft Production in June 1940 to design and produce an initial glider for use by the airborne establishment, which resulted in the Hotspur. Conceived as an "assault" glider which necessitated a compact design and no more than eight troops carried, tactical philosophy soon favoured larger numbers of troops being sent into battle aboard gliders. Due to this, the Hotspur was mainly relegated to training where it did excel and it became the basic trainer for the glider schools that were formed. The Hotspur was named after Sir Henry Percy, a significant captain during the Anglo-Scottish wars who was also known as "Hotspur". A Hotspur Mark II (HH268) replica is on display at the Museum of Army Flying in Hampshire, England. The front fuselage of a Hotspur was preserved at the Parachute Regiment And Airborne Forces Museum in Aldershot prior to the museum''s 2007 closing, in anticipation of a move to the Imperial War Museum Duxford. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Design for Bianchi Ferier, Lyon for a silk scarf 5 March 1945
Gouache, pen and ink 78cm x 76cm Provenance: The Bianchi Ferrier archive sale at Christies On 9 February 1945 the 'Colmar Pocket' was finally cleared of Germans - a process that had started in November 1944 - and the province of Alsace changed hands between France and Germany for the fourth time in 75 years. Happily in the succeeding 75 years Alsace has not changed ownership. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634-1692)
The Costumes of the University of Cambridge
Engraving, 14 x 36 cm Early 18th century This engraving by van der Aa (based on a prior design by David Loggan) illustrates the various forms of academic dress worn by members of the University of Cambridge. Pieter van der Aa of Leiden was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He is noted for the many engravings he produced after David Loggan's series of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and costumes. Condition: Generally very good; slight age toning, and spotting to margins. -
Akbar's Tomb, Agra
Watercolour 13 x 20 cmA 20th century watercolour by an unknown artist of Akbar's Tomb, Agra, the mausoleum of the Mughal emperor Akbar. We have three other Indian architectural views by the same artist available.Condition: generally very good; one or two small scratches as visible in photographs. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works from the same series. -
Tughlaqabad Fort, Delhi
Watercolour 13 x 20 cmA 20th century watercolour by an unknown artist of Tughlaqabad Fort, a ruined 14th-century fort in Delhi. We have three other Indian architectural views by the same artist available.Condition: generally very good; one or two small scratches as visible in photographs. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works from the same series. -
Taj Mahal, India
Watercolour 13 x 20 cmA 20th century watercolour by an unknown artist of the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan's 1631 mausoleum for his wife. We have three other Indian architectural views by the same artist available.Condition: generally very good; one or two small scratches as visible in photographs. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works from the same series. -
Purana Qila Fort, Delhi, India
Watercolour 13 x 20 cmA 20th century watercolour by an unknown artist of Purana Qila, one of the oldest forts in Delhi. We have three other Indian architectural views by the same artist available.Condition: generally very good; one or two small scratches as visible in photographs. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works from the same series. -
George Frederick Nicholls (1850 - 1935)
Wren Bridge, St John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour 37 x 24 cm Many of Nicholls' paintings are of the Cotswolds and Oxford. He painted the illustrations for a series of county books for A & C Black, including Cornwall (1915) and Cotswolds (1920). 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 St John’s College, Cambridge. -
Donald Brun (1909-1999)
Swissair to Japan
Lithographic poster 40x25 inches If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Jesus College, Cambridge (1690)
Engraving 36 x 52 cm Loggan's skilful view of Jesus College from the 'Cantabrigia 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 has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: extant portions very good; partly trimmed to within platemark; lacking portions of letters in lower left; also missing 1cm-width section down middle, historically replaced in pen and ink. Backed to laid paper. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Jesus College, Cambridge. -
Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) Factory Scene
Monochrome aquatint Signed in plate 22x28cm Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for more from the same source. Aquatint is an unusual medium for Muncaster - the renowned watercolourist - and an unusual subject. Here he has handled the factory scene with perhaps more even than his usual skill. The smoke makes dramatic courses across the sky, and the wires, roofs and gantries all bring very strong triangular forms to a scene with powerful vertical lines. Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. At the age of fifteen his career as a landscape painter began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war and he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at fifteen his mathematics was very weak and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camofleur. A master of capturing seascapes he was therefore able to hide huge ships ‘in plain sight’ with clever disguises. After the war he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Claude Muncaster was a watercolourist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes. He was born Grahame Hall, the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall who taught his son to paint from an early age; Grahame first exhibited his work aged 15 and a few years later was showing at the RA. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in ‘Rolling Round the Horn’, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, his aim was to be able to ‘paint ships and the sea with greater authority’. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founder member, and later President, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. During the Second World War, Muncaster served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) from 1940-44, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships, and also worked as an official war artist. In ‘Still Morning at Aden’ (1944) he depicts Allied warships in this safe anchorage in the Middle East; the back is stamped with Admiralty approval. In 1946-7 he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolours of the royal residences at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral; the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s ‘unerring instinct for a subject’, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and of Bradford. His career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum. -
Claude Muncaster (1903-1974)
English Landscape
Pen and watercolour 23x34cm A classic Claude Muncaster. Rolling clouds billow over an English landscape studded with windswept trees, drystone walls, and a farmhouse. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you'd like to know more, email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) Near Mundesley, Norfolk
Dated 1930 Signed Watercolour 22x28cm Muncaster's watercolours capture the English countryside feel with great competence Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. At the age of fifteen his career as a landscape painter began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war and he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at fifteen his mathematics was very weak and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camofleur. A master of capturing seascapes he was therefore able to hide huge ships ‘in plain sight’ with clever disguises. After the war he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Claude Muncaster was a watercolourist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes. He was born Grahame Hall, the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall who taught his son to paint from an early age; Grahame first exhibited his work aged 15 and a few years later was showing at the RA. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in ‘Rolling Round the Horn’, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, his aim was to be able to ‘paint ships and the sea with greater authority’. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founder member, and later President, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. During the Second World War, Muncaster served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) from 1940-44, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships, and also worked as an official war artist. In ‘Still Morning at Aden’ (1944) he depicts Allied warships in this safe anchorage in the Middle East; the back is stamped with Admiralty approval. In 1946-7 he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolours of the royal residences at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral; the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s ‘unerring instinct for a subject’, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and of Bradford. His career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
