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Print (Etching) Old Houses in the Broad Oxford, A.Hugh Fisher, c1936

Inventory Number 13720


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13720

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Pencil underneath intaglio plate mark, in the hand of Fisher: Old Houses in the Broad, Oxford. To J.B. Firth from A. Hugh Fisher. Pen annotation to bottom: Property of R.T.Gunther.
Physical material
Paper
Physical medium
Black ink
Physical technique
Etching
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 290mm Width: 385mm
Inventory No
13720

Description

Etching taken from a drawing by Alfred Hugh Fisher showing some of the 17th Century buildings on Broad Street, Oxford, which were demolished for the new Bodleian Library in 1937.

Buildings include The Coach and Horses Pub, H.W. Chaundy's book shop, and Rose Paget's gown shop.