For more than three centuries Oxford has been the subject of fine
illustrated books and engraved prints. These exquisitely made
illustrations have become part of the historical record, showing
how Oxford's identity is rooted in the past and tracing a history
of the city's development through the architecture of its most
beautiful colleges and university buildings. Prints made by David
Loggan in the seventeenth century show us a university where the
medieval origins are already largely overlaid by Tudor and Stuart
rebuilding. The engravings in the eighteenth-century Oxford
Almanacks illustrate a city dominated by neo-classical ideas, while
those of the nineteenth century show an increasingly romantic feel
for the architecture against its natural background of sky, trees
and river. Hand-coloured etchings published by Ackermann in the
nineteenth century and Ingram's Memorials of Oxford of 1837 offer a
nostalgic portrait of Oxford before development changed it into the
modern city it is today. The best of these historic prints are
reproduced here to create a panorama of classical Oxford, with an
accompanying text describing the origin of each building,
institution or public event, together with the salient features of
their history. Together they offer an instructive and captivating
view of Oxford through the ages.
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