The Oxford Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God MDCCCL – Martyr's Memorial and Aisle
The Oxford Almanack is a broadside printed annually to circulate a university calendar and has been published since 1674. This 1850 example includes an image of the Martyrs' Memorial, built in 1843 at the intersection of St. Giles', Magdalen, and Beaumont Streets. Designed by George Gilbert Scott, it commemorated the three hundredth anniversary of the deaths of three Protestant reformers, Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. All were burnt from their beliefs near this site in 1555–56. 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 MDCCCL – Martyr's Memorial and Aisle
- 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
- Architect: Related architect Sir George Gilbert Scott (British, 1811–1878)
- Date: 1850
- Medium: Steel engraving
- Dimensions: Plate at top: 13 9/16 × 17 1/2 in. (34.4 × 44.4 cm)
Sheet: 29 7/16 × 21 1/16 in. (74.8 × 53.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
- Object Number: 61.563.8
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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