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Fred Taylor (1875-1963)
Hampton Court by Tram (1929)
Lithographic poster backed to linen 75 x 50 cm Published by Underground Electric Railways Company Ltd, 1929, printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Terry Frost (1915-2003)
Autumnal Landscape in Red, Black and Yellow
Watercolour 40 x 58 cm Signed and dated 1958 Framed in hand-finished grey 'Nicholson' butt-jointed frame. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. In 1954 Frost moved to Leeds to become Gregory Fellow at the University. This began a period when he painted yellow and black and white paintings, inspired by the Yorkshire landscape. In 1958 he joined the London group and then moved to St Ives. This painting dates to this era. -
Dig for Victory Now
Norman Wilson, c1940
Dig for Victory Now Lithograph 18x12cm (7×4.7 inches), price includes frame. When rationing was at its height, what could be more appealing than a basket of fresh vegetables. What more incentive could be required to Dig For Victory Now? If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (British, 1887-1965)
Careless Talk Costs Lives
Lithographic posters c1940 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) Set of eight and individual posters available, please call for current stock. Further biographical details and items by Fougasse are available here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (British 1887-1965)
Noise Almost Always Annoys
Lithographic poster c1940 29.5 x 19.6 cm (11.5 x 7.5 in) printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd. “Published by King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London from a drawing kindly presented by Fougasse. No. 6. F&C Ltd.” Further biographical details and items by Fougasse are available here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous, UK 1939
Keep Calm and Carry On
Ministry of Information Original poster, 1939 76 x 50 cm Very rare - we have traced copies in the Imperial War Museum collection but no other public collection. Scroll down for further information. Condition: A/A- Generally excellent, with three folds and a small crease as visible in photograph and tiny loss to left edge of middle fold. Deliberately not backed this to linen or over-restored as it is important that it does not look like a modern reproduction. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Smith RE (1920-1999) Sulzer Engineering Works Switzerland Watercolour 26×36.5cm Please note we have two works in this series, click here for the other one. Here abstract, modernist figures filled with energy, hinting towards perhaps Epstein-like characteristics, are illuminated by the forge providing a splash of colour. Born in Lowestoft he served in Bomber Command during the war and was commissioned to sketch on bombing raids over Germany. After the war, he taught at Chelsea School of Art and Camden Arts Centre. His biggest commissions were for Trinity House, recording Lighthouses, and Sulzer Engineering in Switzerland. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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David Smith RE (1920-1999)
Sulzer Engineering Works Switzerland II
Mixed media 40x33cm Please note we have two works in this series which are available, click here for the other. Framed in a grey wood frame. Born in Lowestoft he served in Bomber Command during the war and was commissioned to sketch on bombing raids over Germany. After the war, he taught at Chelsea School of Art and Camden Arts Centre. His biggest commissions were for Trinity House, recording Lighthouses, and Sulzer Engineering in Switzerland. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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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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.