Studio: international art (80.1920)

"UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD "
DRAWN BY EDMUND H; NEW

MR. EDMUND H. NEWS " LOG-
GAN" DRAWINGS. 000

THE only possible way to depict masses
of buildings grouped on quadrangular
plan is to adopt the convention of the
bird's-eye view. The latter, under the
name of " prospect," was the mode of
representation invariably used by David
Loggan in his celebrated series of prints of
Oxford and Cambridge. The original
" Oxonia Illustrata " of Loggan was pro-
duced in 1673-5, and a similar but very
inferior series followed by William Williams
in 1726-33. Williams was thoroughly in-
fected by the pseudo-classical instincts of
his time—so much so that in two cases,
those of Magdalen and Brasenose Colleges,
he represented the buildings, not as they
were, but as he would have preferred them
to be. His drawings generally are hard

and unsympathetic, but they have a cer-
tain value as records of the changes that
had taken place in the buildings be-
tween Loggan's time and his (Williams')
own. 000000
At the present day the " prospect"
method is being revived with singular
success by Mr. E. H. New in his New
Loggan series of Oxford Colleges and
other views ; though he does not always
take the same point of view as was taken
by his predecessors above-named. The
first drawings of the series were reviewed
in The Studio for February 1915 ; the
more recent additions to the series com-
prise views of Exeter, Queen's, University
and Oriel Colleges and Christ Church. It
is quite remarkable how much detail Mr.
New manages to introduce into his draw-
ings without in any degree sacrificing the
effect of breadth and spaciousness in the

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