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Print (Etching) of the East Portal of the Old Ashmolean Building, by Albany E. Howarth, 1909

Inventory Number 21938


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.21938

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by F. G. Crumpler.
Primary inscriptions
Signed within the image 'A. E. Howarth' ; signed below the image 'Albany E. Howarth'. Also inscribed below the image 'Doorway Ashmolean'.
Physical material
Paper
Physical medium
Black ink
Physical technique
Etching
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 327mm Width: 247mm
Inventory No
21938
Accession Number
1974-15

Description

Limited edition signed etching showing the grand east portico of the Old Ashmolean, and also the adjacent archway to the back door, during the period between the Ashmolean Museum's removal and the foundation of the Museum of the History of Science (and thus before any restoration work). Originally entitled 'A Doorway of the Ashmolean, Oxford', this was no.11 in the set of 12 etchings of Oxford which Howarth issued in 1909, in a limited signed edition of 100 (the plate then being destroyed).