| Method | Copper engraving |
| Artist | Francesco Sesone after David Loggan |
| Published | c. 1750's |
| Dimensions | Image 135 x 195 mm, Plate 160 x 205 mm, Sheet 175 x 226 mm |
| Notes |
A reduced Italian copy of David Loggan's view of the facade of the Bodleian Library. The scene shows figures in the foreground admiring the building and going about their business. Francesco Sesone (c.1715 - c.1805) was an Italian artist and engraver. David Loggan (1635-1692), artist and engraver, was born at Danzig in 1635. He may have learnt the art of engraving from Simon van den Passe in Denmark and from Hendrik Hondius in the Netherlands. Loggan followed Hondius's sons to England in about 1653, and by 1665 he was residing at Nuffield, near Oxford, and had made the acquaintance of the antiquarian Anthony Wood. On 30 March 1669 he was appointed Engraver to the University of Oxford, with an annual salary of twenty shillings. He married a daughter of Robert Jordan, Esq. of Kencote Hall in Oxfordshire in 1671, and in 1672 they had a son, John Loggan, who later graduated from Trinity College. The marriage probably produced another son, William Loggan, about whom little is known except that he was responsible for a satirical print of Father Peters and the Jesuits, published in 1681. David Loggan took up residence in Holywell in about 1671, prior to matriculating at the University. In 1675 he was naturalised as an Englishman. The remainder of his life was spent mostly in London, where he worked as an agent and art dealer, and as Engraver to the University of Cambridge, a position he attained in 1690, two years before his death. Loggan's two great works were a series of architectural bird's eye plans of the colleges and public buildings of Oxford and Cambridge, the Oxonia Illustrata, published in 1675, and its rarer sister Cantabrigia Illustrata, which appeared at some point previous to 1690. Following Loggan's death, the plates were acquired and reprinted by Henry Overton in 1705 and c.1710 respectively. Condition: Vertical folds as issued. Trimmed within plate mark to top margin. |
| Framing | mounted |
| Price | £85.00 |
| Stock ID | 52778 |