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John Piper C.H. (BRITISH, 1903-1992)
Shadwell Park
(Levinson 277) Screenprint in colours, on Arches, signed and numbered. Printed by Kelpra Studio and published by Marlborough Fine Art, London. 510 x 690mm From the 'Victorian Dream Palaces' series of prints by Piper. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: generally very good. A little discolouration to extreme margins hidden under mount. In hand-finished black-painted frame. -
William Alfred Pite (1860-1949)
King`s College Hospital, Denmark Hill general bird`s-eye view (1913)
Initialled H.M.F., signed and titled by William A. Pite F.R.I.B.A. (1860-1949), lower right, on board support with R.I.B.A. `Exhibition of Contemporary British Architecture` label, and architect`s label both mounted on verso Watercolour over pencil 46 x 92cm (26.25 x 18 inches) -
Gwen White
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Gouache 24x32cm Gwen White is author of Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers and this view of Trinity is painted with an architect’s eye for detail. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Map of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (1622) engraved by William Hole for Drayton’s Poly Olbion
London (1622) 24 x 31 cm (9 x 12 in) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J R Stammers (1918-??) for Sir Albert Richardson
Design for New Buildings at Christ’s College, Cambridge
Inscribed ‘PROPOSED EXTENSIONS TO CHRIST’S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE’, ‘A.E. RICHARDSON E.A.S. HOUFE’ (lower left), ‘PERSPECTIVE BY J.R. STAMMERS’ (lower right) Pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour 63 x 86cm (25 x 34 inches) Provenance: The estate of Albert Richardson. Click here for other works by the artist and biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robert Tavener (1920 – 2004) King’s College, Cambridge Signed in pen lower right, titled verso 10 1/2 x 15 Watercolour and ink 27x38cm (10.6×14.9 inches) unframed Renowned print-maker Robert Tavener was born in London. After the war he was educated at the Hornsey College of Art, and became head of print-making at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in 1953. His work is held in over twenty-five public collections, including the Government Art Collection and the V&A. Here, in a rare watercolour, he shows his skill extended well beyond print making. For other works by Robert Tavener and biographical details click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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James Sargant Storer (1771–1853)
Trinity College Gateway from The Backs, Cambridge, c1820
Watercolour 19×13.5cm (7.4×5.3 inches) unframed This is the original watercolour for an engraving published as The Avenue by James & Henry Storer c.1820 in Delineations of Trinity College. The exquisitely detailed watercolour showing academical figures standing on Trinity Bridge as viewed from the backs is framed in its original nineteenth century gilt slip behind nineteenth century glass. Provenance: by decent from the artist. Storer was a topographer with an interest in ancient architecture, making drawings and engraving the plates himself. From 1814 he worked in conjunction with his eldest son, Henry, who predeceased him in 1837. They were buried next to each other at St James’s Chapel in Pentonville, now Joseph Grimaldi Park (named after the clown, Grimaldi who was buried there in 1837 and whose railed grave remains to this day). If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Richard Henry Wright (1857-1930)
Trinity Great Gate, Cambridge
Watercolour 47x39cm (frame) 25x18cm (9.8×7 inches) Originally from Hampshire, Wright was an artist who specialised in topographical views, mostly in Europe and Egypt. He exhibited at the RA from 1885 to 1913. In 1892 he married the artist Catherine Morris Wood, who also exhibited at the RA – but from 1880 until the 1920s. They lived at 2 Harcourt Buildings in the Inner Temple If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Alexander Wallace Rimington (1854–1918)
King’s College, Cambridge
Signed with initials and dated 1906 Watercolour 33x24cm (12.9×9.4 inches) Alexander Wallace Rimington A.R.E., R.B.A., Hon. F.S.A was Professor of Fine Arts at Queen's College, London. An etcher, illustrator, painter, and author he was most famous for inventing a musical instrument, the 'colour organ' that projected different colours in harmony with music. His first Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1880, over subsequent years he exhibited thirty-four works there, mostly topographical works related to his travels around Europe. He had regular shows at the Fine Art Society - seven between 1893 and 1912 - showing a hundred or more watercolours. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., P.R.A. (1880-1964)
Cambridge Revisited (1933)
Pen, ink, and wash24 x 35 cmSigned and dated lower right.Renowned for his architectural fantasies, Richardson here depicts Sir Christopher Wren revisiting the chapel he built in 1677. Wren is a Colossus, surveying not only the architecture of the chapel but the fantastical assortment of characters present in the quad. Seventeenth century lords, ladies, and scholars occupy the centre of the picture while 20th century tourists (on the left) watch the scene unfold.Richardson was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy, editor of Architects' Journal, founder of the Georgian Group and the Guild of Surveyors and Master of the Art Workers' Guild. He also received the Architectural Association’s Professor Bannister Fletcher Medal (an award for the study of post- Great Fire London architecture) in 1902. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908) The Kitchen Bridge, St John’s College, Cambridge Signed lower right “Fulleylove” Watercolour 13 x 19cm (5 x 7 inches) Please click here for the matching watercolour of the Old Library together with biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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John Fulleylove (1845-1908)
The Old Library, St John’s College, Cambridge
Signed lower right “Fulleylove” Watercolour 19x13cm (7×5 inches) Please click here for the matching watercolour of the Kitchen Bridge together with biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Queens’ College Cambridge
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso. Oil on wood panel 21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in) £1850 Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourne, c. late 1940s An Italian who arrived in London around 1930, the Museum of London and City of London have a series of pictures Sansalvadore painted of war-damaged London. Click here for other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen of Corsham (1886 -1974)
Jesus College, Cambridge
Ink and pastel Signed and dated 30 May 1949; in artist’s original oak frame. 41x26cm (16.1×10.2 inches) For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Attributed to Richard Bankes Harraden (1778–1862)
First Court, Pembroke College, Cambridge c1830
Watercolour, unsigned 27.5x39cm Pembroke prior to the demolition of the south range of Old Court in 1874 by Alfred Waterhouse. (His plans for the near-complete rebuilding of the College included the demolition of Wren’s chapel, but the Fellows’ caution prevented this.) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
Trinity College Bridge Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed in an antique-white-finished frame with gilt slip. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn RA (1870-1951)
Clare College from the Backs
Watercolour Inscribed “To my friend H Thirkill Master of Clare” Signed “W de Glehn, 1940” 40x50cm De Glehn painted Henry Thirkill in a portrait that is in the collection of Clare College and may be viewed here. Thirkill was Master between 1939 and 1958 and the portrait was commissioned in 1947. A versatile painter, skilled at portraiture, landscapes and figures de Glehn is regarded as one of England’s premier Impressionist painters. His ability to portray lighting in a lively fashion and his vibrant use of colour combine to provide wonderfully rich paintings. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle (1922-2000)
Senate House, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956-6)
Block print 72/75 Artist’s proof, published by Editions Alecto, London, 1966 46x89cm Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
Wren Bridge St. John’s College Cambridge
Watercolour and pencil 8.8×16.7cm A charmingly painted watercolour c. last quarter 19th century If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Cyrus Johnson (1848-1925)
Two Dons Engaged in Conversation by Clare College Back Gates, Cambridge
Watercolour 13x22cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Alfred Daniels RBA RWS (1924-2015)
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Gouache, watercolour and ink on board 40x56cm (15.7×22 inches). In a hand-finished cream frame. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edwin La Dell ARA (1914-1970) Emmanuel College Cambridge Signed Watercolour
46x32cm (18.11 X 12.6 in)
In fine original hand-finished painted frame.
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Mabel Oliver Rae (1868-1956)
King's College Chapel from the Meadows
Engraving 12x17.5cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
M Oliver Rae
All Souls, Oxford
Engraving 22.5x15cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anon.
Safety comes in cans
British Safety Council Lithographic Poster c. 1970s or 1980s 40x25cm Health and Safety amusement with the "I can, you can, we can" catchphrase. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Claude Muncaster
Landscape with Harvest Field and Cottage
Pen and watercolour 22x29cm Provenance: Martin Muncaster, the artist's son. 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. -
Claude Muncaster
Port Alleyway, City of New York, August (1948)
Pen and watercolour Signed 20x28cm Provenance: Martin Muncaster, the artist's son. 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. -
Claude Muncaster
Storm on City of Exeter, Ellerman Line (Passing through the Bay of Biscay), 1948
Signed Watercolour and pencil 21x28cm Provenance: Martin Muncaster, the artist's son. 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. -
Claude Muncaster
The Bow Wash
Pen and watercolour 21x28cm Framed Provenance: Martin Muncaster, the artist's son. 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.