International studio . ILLUMINATED TEXT FROMTinC ITLGRLMS M. C. HOWERLEY. 6^. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORDDRAWN BY EDMUND H. NEW- MR. EDMUND DRAWINGS. NEWS LOG- THE only possible way to depict massesof buildings grouped on quadrangularplan is to adopt the convention of thebirds-eye view. The latter, under thename of prospect, was the mode ofrepresentation invariably used by DavidLoggan in his celebrated series of prints ofOxford and Cambridge. The original Oxonia Illustrata of Loggan was pro-duced in 1673-5, 3nd a similar but veryinferior series followed by William Williamsin 1
International studio . ILLUMINATED TEXT FROMTinC ITLGRLMS M. C. HOWERLEY. 6^. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORDDRAWN BY EDMUND H. NEW- MR. EDMUND DRAWINGS. NEWS LOG- THE only possible way to depict massesof buildings grouped on quadrangularplan is to adopt the convention of thebirds-eye view. The latter, under thename of prospect, was the mode ofrepresentation invariably used by DavidLoggan in his celebrated series of prints ofOxford and Cambridge. The original Oxonia Illustrata of Loggan was pro-duced in 1673-5, 3nd a similar but veryinferior series followed by William Williamsin 1726-33. Williams was thoroughly in-fected by the pseudo-classical instincts ofhis time—so much so that in two cases,those of Magdalen and Brasenose Colleges,he represented the buildings, not as theywere, but as he would have preferred themto be. His drawings generally are hard and unsympathetic, but they have a cer-tain value as records of the changes thathad taken place in the buildings be-tween Loggans time and his (Williams)own. a 0 a 0 0 c At the present day the prospect method
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