Over the past year we have been putting together one of the largest
collections of unusual and early Stereoscopic views of the famous
University City. The entire collection, alongside over 100 Victorian
photographs will be on display in the gallery from the 27th of July.
Private View: Thursday 26th July. 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition continues until Sunday 12th August, 2012. 10am - 6pm Monday -Saturday, 11am - 5pm Sunday.
For a sneak preview of the photographs and stereoviews to feature in the exhibition
click here
Image:
[Oxford]
Alfred R.Mowbray
Albumen Photograph
Photographed by Mowbray, 2, Corn Market Steet, Oxford.[n.d. c. 1865]
Image 67 x 127 mm
A stereoview of the Oxford skyline taken from a roof near Carfax looking across towards the Radcliffe Camera, the Bodliean, New College and All Souls.
Alfred R. Mowbray was a photographer and bookseller who operated from No. 2 Cornmarket Street, Oxford c. 1859-1867. A R Mowbray and Co
Founded in Oxford in 1858 by Alfred R Mowbray (1824-75) as religious booksellers and suppliers of ecclesiastical fittings and perquisites of all kinds (including glass), the firm’s works and shop were there. A London branch, opened in 1873, was for many years in Margaret Street. Their work continued almost unchanged well into the C20, as a catalogue of their wares of 1926 shows and they supplied mainly churches of an Anglo-Catholic persuasion. The ecclesiastical fittings business was taken over by J Wippell and Co in the 1970s, but the name survives as a separate entity for religious works within Hatchard's bookshop in Piccadilly, like Mowbray’s now part of the Waterstones chain. In later years they did not design the goods they sold, but commissioned others, though few can be credited to a name. Among designers of glass they used A L Ward.
Image:
[Oxford]
Alfred R.Mowbray
Albumen Photograph
Photographed by Mowbray, 2, Corn Market Steet, Oxford.[n.d. c. 1865]
Image 67 x 127 mm
A stereoview of the Oxford skyline taken from a roof near Carfax looking across towards the Radcliffe Camera, the Bodliean, New College and All Souls.
Alfred R. Mowbray was a photographer and bookseller who operated from No. 2 Cornmarket Street, Oxford c. 1859-1867. A R Mowbray and Co
Founded in Oxford in 1858 by Alfred R Mowbray (1824-75) as religious booksellers and suppliers of ecclesiastical fittings and perquisites of all kinds (including glass), the firm’s works and shop were there. A London branch, opened in 1873, was for many years in Margaret Street. Their work continued almost unchanged well into the C20, as a catalogue of their wares of 1926 shows and they supplied mainly churches of an Anglo-Catholic persuasion. The ecclesiastical fittings business was taken over by J Wippell and Co in the 1970s, but the name survives as a separate entity for religious works within Hatchard's bookshop in Piccadilly, like Mowbray’s now part of the Waterstones chain. In later years they did not design the goods they sold, but commissioned others, though few can be credited to a name. Among designers of glass they used A L Ward.
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