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

Oxford from the East (1727)

Engraving

12 x 16 cm

An eighteenth-century view of Oxford from the east, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The skies are wide and full of the University’s dreaming spires.

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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