The Oxford Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God MDCCCXLVI – St. Giles' Church
The Oxford Almanack is a broadside printed annually to circulate a university calendar and has been published since 1674. This 1846 example includes an image of St. Giles' Church, built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and located in North Oxford at the confluence of St. Giles' and Woodstock Roads. The calendar below is flanked by lists of British monarchs and officers of the university.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Oxford Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God MDCCCXLVI – St. Giles' Church
- 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: 1846
- Medium: Steel engraving
- Dimensions: Plate at top: 11 7/16 × 16 7/16 in. (29 × 41.8 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/8 × 20 11/16 in. (74 × 52.6 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
- Object Number: 61.563.7
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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