Jesus College, from the Turl

Method Steel engraving with hand colouring
Artist John Le Keux
Published Published by J.H. Parker, Oxford, Novr. 1st 1862.
Dimensions Image 250 x 345 mm, Plate 330 x 400 mm, Sheet 258 x 460 mm
Notes Image for the 1863 Oxford Almanack. It depicts the changes made to the facade of Jesus College in 1854, when the gate tower was heightened and the building refaced.

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. p99

Condition: Trimmed and missing the calendar. Surface dirt to margins.
Framing mounted
Price £350.00
Stock ID 52173

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