- Title:
- A View of Oxford from the Abingdon Road
- Date:
- 1818
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and line engraving with chine collé; first published state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 23 1/8 × 34 7/8 inches (58.7 × 88.6 cm), Plate: 20 × 25 3/4 inches (50.8 × 65.4 cm), Chine collé: 19 1/4 × 25 1/4 inches (48.9 × 64.1 cm), Image: 15 7/8 × 23 3/4 inches (40.3 × 60.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "R. 80"; lower left: "966"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "ans"; lower left: "Ag No. 4 | P/01-"
Collector's mark: Unidentified J. W. (similar to Lugt 1552a); stamped number: 103615
Lettered below image: "Published Feby. 13th 1818 by James Wyatt | Carver and Gilder High Street, Oxford. | as the Act directs | A VIEW OF OXFORD FROM THE ABINGDON ROAD | To the Right Honourable JOHN SCOTT, BARON ELDON, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR of Great Britain, High Steward of the University of Oxford. This Plate, Engraved by John Pye, after an original Picture, by J.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A. & Professor of Perspective to the Royal Academy. | Is dedicated with PERMISSION by his LORDSHIP'S most obliged & very humble Servant JAMES WYATT."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6570
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Print made by John Pye, 1782–1874, British, A View of Oxford from the Abingdon Road, 1818
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