Magdalen Hall, Oxford

Method Copper engraving
Artist George Hollis after John Chessell Buckler
Published Published by J. Ryman, High Street, Oxford, 1836.
Dimensions Image 143 x 203 mm, Plate 198 x 247 mm, Sheet 335 x 421 mm
Notes A view of the buildings of Hertford College from Catte Street.

Hollis was a well-known artist and engraver who worked in Oxford in the first half of the nineteenth century. Many of his engravings were published by James Ryman, a printseller on the High Street, Oxford, active between 1836 and 1865. Hollis's views were published separately from 1819 before being bound as a volume with descriptive text in 1839. Illustrations of Oxford is a comparitively rare work with some uncommon views of the colleges to which celebrated artists like T. S. Boys, Frederick Nash and J. S. Prout made relevant contributions.

John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) was an architect and antiquary. His work included restorations of country houses and buildings at the University of Oxford. He was the son of John Buckler (1770 –1851), an outstanding architectural draughtsman and Bailiff for Magdalen College's Southwark Estate for sixty years, whose views in Oxford, especially Magdalen College, rank amongst the finest ever produced.

Condition: Few light spots of foxing to margins.
Framing mounted
Price £120.00
Stock ID 39267

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