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| Physical Attributes |
| Technique: Photo-engraving |
| Dimensions: 322 x 417 mm |
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| County: Oxfordshire |
| City: Oxford |
| Oxford: Merton College |
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| Production |
| Artist: Edmund Hort New |
| Engraver: Emery Walker |
| Published by: Edmund Hort New, at 17 Worcester Place, Oxford |
| Date: 1912 |
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Certificate of Authenticity
This is a genuine print engraved by Emery Walker after a drawing by Edmund Hort New. It was published by Edmund Hort New in 1912 as one of a series of prints of Oxford Colleges inspired by the 17th century engravings of David Loggan.
In 1905, Edmund Hort New moved to Oxford, and over a period of years, produced a series of drawings of the Oxford Colleges, based on David Loggan's 1675 aerial perspectives. New took Loggan's format and enriched his prints with many fine details of and about the colleges. The series was printed and published by Emery Walker, who marketed them appropriately as 'New Loggan Prints.' New's college views were attractive to collectors because of their high level of detail, and were in most cases a far closer representation of the colleges than the original Loggan views. These prints were made through photogravure, a relatively new process at the time. For a photogravure, the print was made by transferring a photo to a copper plate and then printing from it. With the EH New prints, a contact print of New's pen and ink drawing was made and the large negative attached to a plate which was then exposed in an acid bath, the acid only biting where the negative was clear, creating an engraved plate of the drawing.
Emery Walker (1851 - 1933) was a British master-printer, typographer and engraver. He was one of the leading figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the revival of engraving. Walker helped to found the Kelmscott Press and was later a partner of Cobden-Sanderson in the Doves Press, where he was responsible for much of the successful work produced. |
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Antique Photo-engraving - "Merton College Oxford" published 1912 by Edmund Hort New, at 17 Worcester Place, Oxford. |