Plan of the University and Town of Cambridge

Method Steel engraved with hand colour
Artist Le Keux, John after Findlay, Arthur George
Published Engraved by J. Le Keux, from a Drawing by A.G. Findlay. London, Published Novr. 1st. 1842, by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street
Dimensions 190 x 220 mm
Notes A detailed plan of Cambridge with a key to landmarks lower right and crests of the University and Colleges on the left from Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge, A series of views of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright and H. Longueville.

John Le Keux (1783-1846) was an engraver who was involved in several topographical books including the companion work Memorials of Oxford, 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.

Arthur George Findlay (1812-1875)

Condition: Central vertical fold, as issued. Minor time toning and foxing to sheet. Blank on verso.
Framing unmounted
Price £90.00
Stock ID 51538

required