View from the Parks Oxford, Looking South.

Method Steel engraving with hand colouring
Artist John Le Keux
Published Published by Macmillan & Co. Oxford & London. Novr. 1st. 1868.
Dimensions Image 240 x 350 mm, Plate 325 x 410 mm, Sheet 345 x 468 mm
Notes One of the very few prints of University Parks, looking south printed for the 1869 Oxford Almanack. In the foreground is a shepherd with a large flock of sheep, small groups of people are seen in the background.

John Le Keux (1783-1846) was an engraver who was involved in several topographical books including the companion work Memorials of Cambridge, whilst the artist Frederick Mackenzie (1787-1854) was a watercolour painter and architectural draughtsman who made drawings for Ackermann's University of Oxford and Public Schools, and twenty-four of the Oxford Almanacs between 1821-1853.

Petter, Helen Mary. The Oxford Almanacks. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press. 1974. p100.

Condition: Trimmed and missing calendar. Some spots of foxing to sheet.
Framing mounted
Price £175.00
Stock ID 52098

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