DOI Heft:
No. 263 (February 1915)
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: The ''New Loggan'' drawings of Oxford and Florence: by Edmund H. New
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0024
Mr. Edmund H. News “ Loggan" Drawings
a clearer and more comprehensive idea of a quad-
rangular building than can be obtained by any
one other system of drawing.
The same method of representation has, very
wisely, then, been followed by Mr. New in his
new Loggan views ; the latter appearing, however,
not in book form, but in separate plates from time
to time. From Williams’ day to the present no
such series of Oxford views has been attempted.
In the interval many sweeping changes, not always
for the better, have taken place in Oxford buildings,
and, if it is not ungracious to criticise such excellent
drawings as Mr. New’s, one may be permitted to
observe that his rendering is really too excellent,
inasmuch as his magic touch sheds a glamour over
all the buildings alike, making the most recent and
crudest of the crude to look as plausible and as
venerable as the genuine works of former days.
This much being prefaced, nothing remains to add
but unstinted praise for the artist’s exquisite and
careful draughtsmanship. Each view is a delight-
ful work of art in itself.
Not least among the advantages of the “New
Loggan ” is that Mr. New sometimes, as in the
case of Merton and Magdalen Colleges, adopts for
standpoint a different quarter of the compass from
the original Loggan, thus providing a record of a
peculiar value of its own. The seventeenth-cen-
tury engraving of Merton College is taken from
the north ; whereas Mr. New chooses a vantage
ground at an imaginary height over Merton
meadow. To do so was, indeed, necessary in
order to depict not only the beautiful meadow
frontage of the Fellows’ Quadrangle, built in 1610,
but also the more modern buildings, erected at the
South-west by Butterfield in 1864, and the new
court by Mr. Basil Champneys which takes the
place of the old St. Alban Hall in the east, as also
the Warden’s new lodging on the other side of the
street to north-east of the rest of the college
buildings. Another point which Mr. New’s view
brings out well is the fact that Merton Chapel is
an unfinished cruciform church, lacking the nave
that was originally projected; whereas the ante-
chapels of the group of colleges, of which New
College was the first, and Magdalen the third in
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a clearer and more comprehensive idea of a quad-
rangular building than can be obtained by any
one other system of drawing.
The same method of representation has, very
wisely, then, been followed by Mr. New in his
new Loggan views ; the latter appearing, however,
not in book form, but in separate plates from time
to time. From Williams’ day to the present no
such series of Oxford views has been attempted.
In the interval many sweeping changes, not always
for the better, have taken place in Oxford buildings,
and, if it is not ungracious to criticise such excellent
drawings as Mr. New’s, one may be permitted to
observe that his rendering is really too excellent,
inasmuch as his magic touch sheds a glamour over
all the buildings alike, making the most recent and
crudest of the crude to look as plausible and as
venerable as the genuine works of former days.
This much being prefaced, nothing remains to add
but unstinted praise for the artist’s exquisite and
careful draughtsmanship. Each view is a delight-
ful work of art in itself.
Not least among the advantages of the “New
Loggan ” is that Mr. New sometimes, as in the
case of Merton and Magdalen Colleges, adopts for
standpoint a different quarter of the compass from
the original Loggan, thus providing a record of a
peculiar value of its own. The seventeenth-cen-
tury engraving of Merton College is taken from
the north ; whereas Mr. New chooses a vantage
ground at an imaginary height over Merton
meadow. To do so was, indeed, necessary in
order to depict not only the beautiful meadow
frontage of the Fellows’ Quadrangle, built in 1610,
but also the more modern buildings, erected at the
South-west by Butterfield in 1864, and the new
court by Mr. Basil Champneys which takes the
place of the old St. Alban Hall in the east, as also
the Warden’s new lodging on the other side of the
street to north-east of the rest of the college
buildings. Another point which Mr. New’s view
brings out well is the fact that Merton Chapel is
an unfinished cruciform church, lacking the nave
that was originally projected; whereas the ante-
chapels of the group of colleges, of which New
College was the first, and Magdalen the third in
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FROM A PEN DRAWING BY EDMUND HORT NEW