Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)

All Souls College, Oxford (1727)

Engraving

12 x 16 cm

An eighteenth-century view of Le College de Toutre les Ames (All Souls), engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The college was founded by Henry VI of England and Henry Chichele (fellow of New College and Archbishop of Canterbury), in 1438, to commemorate the victims of the Hundred Years’ War.

Pieter van der Aa of Leiden was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He is noted for the many engravings he produced after David Loggan’s series of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and costumes. In 1727 Van Der Aa illustrated “Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne & de L’Irelande” by James Beeverell, the book in which this engraving appears.

Condition: a good impression.

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