catalogue text.indd - Sanders of Oxford

c. 1755
Image 265 x 400 mm
mounted
An extremely scarce Vue D’optique of Queens College
and Oxford High Street based on Donowell’s earlier print.
All the windows of the earlier scene have been cut out
and replaced with hand coloured transparent paper. This
unusual technique was solely used on eighteenth-century
perspective views, or vue d’optiques.
[30123]
£575
38. High Street Oxford
Etching & Aquatint with original hand colouring
L.Garnaut after William Delamotte
Published by Delamotte, Oxford, January. 1803
Image 513 x 725 mm, Sheet 590 x 773 mm (with new
margins added on all sides)
framed
An extremely rare large-scale view of the High Street.
A covered cart drives along the broad street; it looks
towards Carfax, and shows the gentle curve of the road.
University college is on the left. Queen’s college
appears opposite it, with the cupola, and several students
in gowns gathered near the porch,. Other students
appear in procession on the High Street, whilst a crippled
man sits against the wall in the right foreground, having
chalked on the ground before him ‘Nelson Peace’.
39. The Oxford Rose
Steel engraving and chromolithograph
C. Adler
From C. Adler’s Printing Establishment, Hamburg for
London Joseph Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street c.
1860
230 x 230 mm
framed
A rare ephemeral item, ‘The Oxford Rose’ was printed by
C. Adler in Hamburg as part of a series for Joseph Myers
in London. One of many ‘Roses’ of important world
cities, this example shows 32 steel engraved vignettes of
Oxford printed on both sides of a delicate folding sheet.
The die cut sheet folds neatly into a fan shape where the
views are concealed and only the outer covers of a chromolithographed
rose are visible.
[29864]
£500
Public Schools & Colleges
Abbey undescribed.
Condition: Trimmed within the plate with new margins
added, professionally repaired tear to left of title,
professional manuscript repair to top left corner of image,
professionally repaired tears to left hand side of sheet.
[29259]
£2,000
40. [Harrow. “A Bill.”]
Etching
William J Allingham after Tom H Hemy