Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Loggan, David, 1635-1700?
Title:
Cantabrigia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis, collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae academicae scholarum publicarum, sacelli coll. regalis : regalis nec non totius oppidi ichnographia / deliniatore and sculptore Dav. Loggan utriusque academiae calcographo.
Alternate Title(s):
Cantabrigia illustrata
Published / Created:
[Cambridge] : Quam proprijs sumptibus typis mandavit and impressit Cantabrigiae, [1690?]
Physical Description:
[64] leaves : illustrations ; 45 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2014 50
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Some copies include a frontispiece portrait of Charles II signed: Riley pinx: Smith fec. Other copies include a frontispiece portrait of Charles, Duke of Somerset signed Wm Clarke fec.

Engraved throughout, with most plates signed by the author: [4] single leaves and [30] double leaves.

This work is sometimes dated "[1688]", but the view of Trinity Hall is dated 1689, and the view of Magdalene College mentions Gabriel Quadring as master, elected 1690; Loggan himself was not named engraver to the University until 1690. See: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Wing (2d edition), L2837

English short title catalogue, R9256

British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 1913

Includes engraved index of plates.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco by the Centre Rectangle Binder; dated 1690 on front cover. Frontispiece in the British Art Center copy is a mezzotint portrait of Charles, Duke of Somerset by William Clarke. Has bound with it: Oxonia illustrata. Cambridge, 1675.
Subject Terms:
University of Cambridge -- Buildings -- Pictorial works. | University of Cambridge -- History. | Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Cambridge -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Universities and colleges -- England -- Cambridge -- Pictorial works. | Centre Rectangle Binder -- Bookbinder.
Form/Genre:
Mezzotints -- 1690. | Engravings -- 1690.
Contributors:
Clarke, William, active 1635–1651, engraver.