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David Loggan’s ‘Oxonia Illustrata’ published in Oxford 1675 is generally considered one of the finest English engraved topographical works of the seventeenth. Loggan (1635-1700?) was born in Danzig and came to England about 1653. By 1665 he was living near Oxford and in 1669 was appointed engraver to the University. In the year the ‘Oxonia’ was published he married. This engraving is of the Sheldonian Theatre named after the Chancellor of the University at the time Gilbert Sheldon. It is only the second building designed by Sir Christopher Wren after a Chapel built for his uncle Bishop of Ely at Pembroke College, Cambridge. It was built between 1664 and 1668. In the foreground are a magnificent horse and carriage letting down its well dressed passengers. Even the dog looks on in wonder! Griffiths ‘The Print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689’ pp. 201-03; Upcott Oxford 34; Wing L2838.
LOGGAN, David

Theatri Sheldoniani

Oxford, 1675
350 x 455 mm., superb restoration of a tear running 60 mm. into the image, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 5865

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