Method | Lithograph |
Artist | Lowry, Joseph Wilson |
Published | Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 139, Fleet Street. Day & Son Lithr. to the Queen London W.C. |
Dimensions | 216 x 307 mm |
Notes |
Top half of a double page map of the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, with a numbered key to places of interest, and lettered key to the colleges. Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803-1879) was an English engraver. The son of Wilson Lowry, he was trained by his father, and inherited his taste for scientific subjects. He engraved plates for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, John Phillips' Geology of Yorkshire (1835), Scott Russell's Naval Architecture (1865), and John Weale's Scientific Series. He also produced a series of drawings of London Bridge for Sir John Rennie, and contributed to the journals of the Institution of Naval Architects and the Royal Geographical Society. He was later appointed engraver to the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. Condition: Trimmed to border of map at bottom. |
Framing | unmounted |
Price | £70.00 |
Stock ID | 49355 |