He was baptised on 27 August 1634 in
Danzig, then a semi-autonomous city (granted by the
Danzig law) within
Polish Prussia (
Prusy Królewskie) and a member of the
Hanseatic League. His parents were English and Scottish, probably merchants or refugees. The young David first studied in
Danzig under
Willem Hondius, and later in Amsterdam under
Crispijn van de Passe II. He moved to London in the late 1650s. There he produced various engravings, among them the title-page for the folio
Book of Common Prayer (1662). In addition, he did a number of miniature portraits as
plumbago drawings. He married in 1663, and in 1665 moved from London to
Nuffield, Oxfordshire, to avoid the
Great Plague. In 1669, Loggan was appointed "public sculptor" to the
University of Oxford. Then he proceeded to draw and engrave all the Oxford colleges in
bird's-eye views. His folio
Oxonia illustrata was published in 1675. In 1675, Loggan was naturalised as an English subject. That year he once again settled in London, living in
Leicester Fields, where he let rooms to aristocratic patrons and acted as their agent in the acquisition of works of art. From 1676 he was involved in preparing the new folio
Cantabrigia illustrata, which was eventually published in 1690. In that year he was made engraver to
Cambridge University. Loggan was buried on 1 August 1692 in London. ==Major works==