- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Purchased at the sale of the effects of J. R. Magrath at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1930.
- Primary inscriptions
- Captioned: 'The Clarendon Printing House, Theatre, & Museum.'.
- Other inscriptions
- Inscribed on back [in the hand of R. T. Gunther]: 'Purchased at Sale of Provost of Queen's 1930 (Dr. Magrath.)'.
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 289mm Width: 377mm
- Inventory No
- 75986
- Accession Number
- 1930-31
Description
Beyond the Clarendon Building are the Sheldonian Theatre, Old Ashmolean, and rear entrance of Exeter College, with trees. The various figures include men in academic dress and a flock of sheep being driven along Broad Street (though note that the picture is realistic, not a caricature).
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