WALL ALMANAC

[Almanac] [Oxford University] [Vertue, George]: The Oxford Almanack for the Year of our Lord God MDCCXLIII. [Oxford] [1743].

Oxford University wall calendar, made by the leading printmaker George Vertue (1684-1756), who was university engraver from 1727 to 1751. The print followed, as was usual for Oxford almanacs at this time, a drawing supplied by a certain Mr. Green. It features, at top, an imaginary assembly of founders and benefactors of Lincoln College grouped around an obelisk. Below this is a birds-eye view of the college. Below, besides the calendar, the print has tables of kings since the Norman Conquest, current officers of the university, and founders and rectors of this college. 

Description

Etched and engraved print, 51.8 cms. x 46 cms. within platemarks. Signed, above the calendar, "G. Vertue sc." Light browning, slight spotting, a well-margined copy, framed and glazed (frame size: 66.7 cms. x 59.4 cms.) 

Bibliography

David Alexander, "George Vertue as an engraver". The Walpole Society, vol. 70 (2008), 205-517, see 366, no. 852.

Cataloguing of British Library copy at Maps K.Top.35.4.b (accessed, 30 October 2024, via OCLC 1062007090). 

Martin Myrone, 'Vertue, George (1684-1756)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 03 January 2008 (online).