WINCHESTER COLLEGE
David Loggan "Bird's Eye" View 1675
Facsimile Lithographic Print of Copper Engraving
You are looking at a quality Facsimile Lithographic print of Winchester College. David Loggan was commissioned to produce a series of “Birds Eye” engravings of the Oxford Colleges. These engravings formed the publication Oxonian Illustrata in 1675. Original prints cost hundreds of pounds. Here is an opportunity to purchase a quality lithographic print on quality stock, that will make a beautiful display when framed and mounted. Winchester College opened as a feeder school for New College Oxford in1382 hence its inclusion within the publication.
Type: Copper engraving (origin).
Date: 1675.
Print Size: 455 x 400 mm.
From: Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata 1675.
Packed in a stout cardboard tube
David Loggan and the Oxonian Illustrata Copper Engravings
The first Illustrated book on Oxford and one of the major works of the 17th century. The book was the product of several years of devoted and conscientious effort in which Loggan was assisted by his pupil Robert White. David Loggan was born in Danzig in 1635 and came to England around 1653. By 1665 he was living in Nuffield near Oxford and in 1669 was appointed engraver to the University. In 1675 he married and became a naturalised citizen. His Oxonia Illustrata was intended as a companion work to Historia Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis by Anthony Woods, with whom Loggan had become acquainted some years earlier. The copper engravings are from the first illustrated book on Oxford and one of the major works of the 17th century.