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The Oxford Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God MDCCCXLIV – New College Chapel and Tower from the Old City Ditch

1844

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The Oxford Almanack is a broadside printed annually to circulate a university calendar and has been published since 1674. This 1844 example includes an image of New College Chapel and Tower from the Old City Ditch. The college was founded in 1379 and its architecture is perpendicular or late gothic in style, with the tower containing one of the oldest rings of ten bells. The calendar below is flanked by lists of British monarchs and officers of the university.

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Title: The Oxford Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God MDCCCXLIV – New College Chapel and Tower from the Old City Ditch

Engraver: William Radclyffe (British, Birmingham 1783–1855 Birmingham)

Artist: After Frederick Mackenzie (British (born Scotland), Edinburgh 1787–1854 London)

Publisher: John Henry Parker (British, London 1806–1884 Oxford)

Publisher: E. Gardner & Son (British, active mid-19th century)

Printer: Thomas Combe (British, 1796–1872)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date: 1844

Medium: Steel engraving

Dimensions: Plate at top: 12 5/8 × 16 15/16 in. (32 × 43 cm)
Sheet: 28 7/8 × 20 13/16 in. (73.3 × 52.8 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961

Accession Number: 61.563.6

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