A quadrangle designed for St Mary's Hall, Oxford. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1746.

  • Vertue, George, 1684-1756.
Date:
1746
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23603i
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Oxford almanacks
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A design for St Mary's Hall, a subordinate establishment to Oriel College, incorporated into the college in 1902. The building was not executed. Top left, King Edward II, the founder; top right, Dr Dyke, the founder of scholarships at St Mary's Hall. Below them, on the left are Cardinal William Allen and Sir Thomas More, and on the right Erasmus and George Sandys. At the bottom, putti with books, telescope, globe, mathematical instruments and diagrams, representing the sciences, with the arms of the Earl of Arran (3rd Duke of Ormonde from November 1745), chancellor of the university and patron of St Mary's Hall (Petter, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

1746

Physical description

1 print : etching with line engraving ; border 50 x 44.9 cm

Lettering

The Oxford almanack for the year of our lord God MDCCXLVI. G. Vertue sculp. ...

References note

Helen Mary Petter, The Oxford almanacks, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 64

Reference

Wellcome Collection 23603i

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