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

Queen’s College, Oxford (1727)

Engraving

12 x 16 cm

An eighteenth-century view of Le College de la Reine (Queen’s College), engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault (the wife of King Edward III). Queen’s is known for its predominantly neoclassical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

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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