| Method | Photogravure |
| Artist | Emery Walker after Edmund Hort New |
| Published | Edmund Hort New invenit et delineavit An. Dom. 1911-1916. Published by Edmund Hort New, 17 Worcester Place, Oxford, AD 1916. Photo-engraved by Emery Walker |
| Dimensions | Image 435 x 640 mm, Plate 685 x 465 mm, Sheet 745 x 525 mm |
| Notes |
The largest and most impressive of Hort New's aerial views of the colleges, depicting Christ Church from the west. The birds-eye view shows all of the college's buildings and grounds, and is replete with small vignettes of Oxford life, including a troop of horses entering the gate by the Stables, a motorcar throwing up clouds of dust as it passes Tom Tower, and groups of cyclists avoiding a pair of horsedrawn traps. The Arms of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey are also included, alongside armorials for the Priory of St Frideswide, the Abbey of Osney, the See of Oxford, the University, and the See of York. Full inscription below image reads: 'Christ Church, Oxford. Founded by Thomas Wolsey Archbishop of York, Cardinal of St Cecilia, Papal Legate & Lord Chancellor of England AD 1525. Refounded by King Henry VIII AD 1532 & 1546. Also the Cathedral of Oxford, Founded at Osney Abbey AD 1542 & Transferred to the Priory of St Frideswide AD 1546. Dominus Mihi Adjutor.' Edmund Hort New (1871-1931), known as EH New, was an English artist and illustrator. He was born in Evesham, the son of an important lawyer, and attended the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. He began painting landscape and later devoted himself to illustration. Early in his career he worked with Ruskin and other associated Arts and Crafts artists. He later went on to work for William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The influence of these experiences is evident in his prints, with their decorative borders, armourials, and elegant typefaces. In 1905, Edmund Hort New moved to Oxford, and over a period of years, produced a series of drawings of the Oxford Colleges, based on David Loggan's 1675 aerial perspectives. New took Loggan's format and enriched his prints with many fine details of and about the colleges. The series was printed and published by Emery Walker, who marketed them appropriately as 'New Loggan Prints.' New's college views were attractive to collectors because of their high level of detail, and were in most cases a far closer representation of the colleges than the original Loggan views. These prints were made through photogravure, a relatively new process at the time. For a photogravure, the print was made by transferring a photo to a copper plate and then printing from it. With the EH New prints, a contact print of New's pen and ink drawing was made and the large negative attached to a plate which was then exposed in an acid bath, the acid only biting where the negative was clear, creating an engraved plate of the drawing. Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a British master-printer, typographer and engraver. He was one of the leading figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the revival of engraving. Walker helped to found the Kelmscott Press and was later a partner of Cobden-Sanderson in the Doves Press, where he was responsible for much of the successful work produced. Condition: Minor time toning and creasing to sheet, mostly to margins. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £1,500.00 |
| Stock ID | 52673 |