William Ashburner

William F Ashburner A Maiden in a Classical Setting watercolour pre-Raphaelite

c. 1910

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To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Watercolour 11 x 21 A beautiful original water of Corpus. Casson juxtaposes the sparely painted figures of undergraduates and academics with the majesty of the pale stone used to build much of the college. This watercolour was used in Casson's book "Hugh Casson's Cambridge." Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation...

To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999) Oriel College, Oxford 27 x 39 cm Watercolour We are lucky to be able to offer here the original watercolour from which Casson’s print of the College was produced. We also (elsewhere on the site) offer the print from his ever-popular Oxford and Cambridge series. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation...

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FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...

Marius Bauer (1867-1932) ‘Devotie in de Woestijn’ (Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919) Signed lower right and titled lower left Watercolour on paper, H...

EDWARD DUNCAN, RWS (1803-1882) Boulogne Fishing Boat Signed l.l.: E Duncan; bears title on a label on the reverse Watercolour and pen and ink Unframed 24.5 by 30.5 cm.; 9 ¾ by 12 in. (mount size 31 by 37.5 cm., 12 ¼ by 14 ¾ in.) Provenance: Private collection. Born in London, Duncan was apprenticed to the studio of Robert Havell, principal aquatint engraver of Audubon’s Birds of America...

Attributed to Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) A Provence landscape, watercolor on paper 24 x 32 cm (view) In a modern frame : 45 x 55.5 cm When unframed it appears the work is larger (...