Grosvenor Prints

[Cambridge. Gonville & Caius College, Gate of Honour.] 60. [Gonville and Caius College was founded in 1348 as the Hall of Annunciation by Edmund Gonville, who intended it to be a purely theological institution. It was removed to its present site in 1351, and re-founded in 1557 by Dr. Caius, who set his mark so firmly on the College that to-day it is commonly known as Caius (pronounced Keys). Now the College is famous for its association with natural sciences and medicine. In the early days, the College was entered through a small and insignificant doorway, called the Gate of Humility, now placed in the Master's garden. From there the student passed along a straight roadm shaded as now by trees, until he reached the Gate of Virtue (sometimes called the Gate of Wisdom). In the chambers adjoining, the student spent three years practising humility and acquiring virtue, after which he passed through the Gate of Honour to the Schools, where he received his degree. The Gate of Honour, besides being a university curiosity, is a most interesting example of early renaissance work.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] [Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.]
Etching, 280 x 260mm (11 x 10¼"), with very large margins. Mint.
The gate of honour at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62265] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

King's College Chapel Cambridge University Almanack 1836.
Drawn & Engraved by E. Challis. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Coloured engraving. Plate 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"). Small hole repaired bottom left in image (not visible). Small margins.
[Ref: 62172] £360.00

[Cambridge. King's College, The Chapel.] 62. [The original designer is believed to have been Richard Close, Fellow of the College, and Bishop of Lichfield. The first stone of the Chapel was laid in 1446 by Henry VI., but the stonework was not complete until 1515, and the high altar was set up in 1545, ninety-nine years after the laying of the foundation stone. No building of the same date in England is better known that this Chapel, which is in many respects the most beautiful and most complete in this country. It is the standard specimen of that period of English pointed architecture to which the name of 'perpendicular' has been applied. The design is most striking and combines richness with simplicity of decoration, which justifies its being regarded as the pride and glory of Cambridge architecture. The workmanship throughout is of the most careful finish and of the boldest execution. The beautiful Italian scene was set up when Anne Boleyn was queen, and has her initials together with those of Henry VIII. It was the College of the poet, Rupert Brooke.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 259 x 284mm (10¼ x 11¼"), with very large margins. Mint
[Ref: 62263] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge. King's College, Gateway.] 57. [King's College was founded on its present site in 1440 by Henry VI., a second site being purchased in 1443-49, the King's intention being to unite the College exclusively with the school at Eton which he had recently founded. The influence of the royal founder lasted for many years, and up to 1850 undergraduates of the College received their degree without undergoing the University examinations. For many years it was the most unpopular college in Cambridge by reason of the privileges granted by the King and its immunity from University control. From the very beginning the King had intended the foundation to be regarded as separate from other colleges, at least in degree if not in kind. The gateway to the College is of elaborate but tasteless design, although at the time of its erection it was highly praised. It consists of a rectangular tower and dome 82ft. high standing in the centre of the four pairs of turrets ending in three spires with small pinnacles at each corner of the building. The whole design seems incongruous and lacking in dignity, standing as it does near to and overshadowed by the magnificence of the chapel.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 250 x 280mm (9¾ x 11"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62267] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

S.t John's College, - New Bridge. Cambridge University Almanack 1837.
Drawn & Engraved by E. Challis. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Coloured engraving. Plate 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"), with large margins.
The New Bridge, built across the River Cam in 1831 to designs by Henry Hutchinson, is now known as the Bridge of Sighs.
[Ref: 62173] £320.00

[Cambridge. St. John's College, Bridge of Sighs.] 58. [The Bridge of Sighs connects the main buildings of St. John's College to the new court. It was designed by Thomas Rickman, an interesting man who started life as a grocer. The date of the building is early nineteenth century. The design of the structure was suggested by the Bridge of Sighs at Venice, which has sometimes given rise to unkind comparisons. It is certainly less graceful than Wren's bridge further down the river, but it nevertheless has charm and distinction. It is a single span, covered over, which gives it the appearance of a cloister; the sides are pierced with open perpendicular windows, the gratings being intended to prevent any nocturnal escape from the College. Only one under-graduate is known to have managed to squeeze between the bars.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 281 x 260mm. (11 x 10¼").
[Ref: 62256] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge. St. John's College, Gateway.] 55. [The building of this College was commenced in 1516 by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. Fisher is one of the most renowned of all Cambridge men, being noted fro his charity to all men and particularly to the sick and destitute. His firm refusal to recognise Henry's divorce led to his arrest and execution in 1535. Thw tower which today forms the main entrance to the College is a delightful example of what may be achieved by the skillful use of red brick. The groining is of stone, as are also the elaborate decorations. In the centre a richly canopied niche contains the statue of St. John the Evangelist, holding his usual emblems, the chalice and serpent, and at his feet is the evangelist's symbol, the eagle. This statue was set up in 1662, and immediately above the gate is to be seen Lady Margaret's shield, the three lions of England and the three lilies of France, surmounted by two yales, beasts that in the zoology of heralds form the sub-species of the antelope.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 280 x 255mm. (11 x 10").
[Ref: 62257] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Eton] The New Boy.
Aussie.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Ink and watercolour sketches. Sheet 360 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Some scuffing and staining.
A sheet with five satirical sketches of the life of a boy starting at Eton, being bullied and playing cricket.
[Ref: 62353] £350.00

[Cambridge. Trinity College, King Edward's Gate.] 54. [Trinity College was founded in 1546 by Henry VIII., whose statue is above the gateway. It was formed by the amalgamation of a number of older foundations dating from 1324-1336. The Library of Trinity College was built by Wren, who took as his example the Sansovino Library of St. Mark, Venice. The north side of the court is occupied partly be the Chapel with a gateway-tower in the middle (at west end of the Chapel) known bu the name of King Edward's Gate. It was built about 1426-30, and is of quite a different character from that of the later and heavier gate (or Queen's Gate). Thiw was the first gateway-tower with four turrets to be erected in Cambridge; a form of tower which became characteristic of Cambridge colleges. Thomas Neville built westwards of the Gate a new range containing the Library, thus completing the north side of the quadrangle. Among the famous men of the college are John Donne, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Sir Issac Newton, George Crabbe, Lord Morley, Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Etching. 280 x 255mm (11 x 10"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62268] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Magdalen College and Bridge, Oxford.] [No.47.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 140 x 202mm (5½ x 8"), very large margins. Mint.
A view of Magdalen College and the bridge that crosses the River Cherwell. The large, square tower of the college, has a tradition that the college choir sings from the top at 6 a.m. on May Morning, a tradition carried since the days of Henry VII.
[Ref: 62260] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Magdalen College from the Quadrangle, Oxford.] [No.48.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 202 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), very large margins. Mint.
A view of the Founders Tower from the Cloister Quadrangle, Magdalen College, Oxford University.
[Ref: 62259] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Oriel College.] [No.50]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 201 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), very large margins. Mint.
The front entrance to Oriel College, Oxford University looking north along Oriel Stret towards the Spire of the University Church St Mary the Virgin.
[Ref: 62258] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Radlett Camera, Oxford.] [No.46.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 201 x 139mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Mint.
Brasenose College, Oxford, an entrance seen from the quad showing the domed-roof of the Radlett Camera building behind, now part of the Bodleian Library.
[Ref: 62261] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ Church College, Oxford.] [No.53.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 202 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Mint.
A view of the Tom Tower, named for its bell, Great Tom, which is the main entrance to Christ Church College, Oxford. The tower with its octagonal lantern and facetted ogee dome was designed by Christopher Wren and built 1681-82.
[Ref: 62262] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge. St. John's College. Chapel.] 61. [St. John's College was founded in 1511 through the beneficence of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII., on the suppression of the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist (founded about 1200). The College was brought into existence by the exertions of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who supervised the building and drew up the first statutes. The original Master's Lodgings and Chapel, which formerly stood on the north side, were pulled down in 1869. The new Chapel was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and stands on the site of what was previously a maze of rooms known as "The Labyrinth" which once housed many of the poorer scholars. It contains effigies and monuments to eminent benefactors, removed from the old Chapel, together with the fine old stalls and the piscina of early 13th century workmanship. Of the famous men associated with the College, the best known are William Cecil, Lord Burghley (who was Chancellor 1559-98) Sir John Cheke, and his pupil Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Richard Green, Samuel ("Erewhon") Butler, Bishop Wilberforce and William Wordsworth.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 259 x 284mm (10¼ x 11¼"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62264] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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