 In 1905, New moved from Evesham, the place of his birth, to Oxford where he started work on a series of drawings of the University of Oxford colleges, a project which was to occupy him for the rest of his life and remained unfinished.The drawings were engraved by Emery Walker and sold as the "New Loggan Prints".He also provided further illustrations for a series of books called the "College monographs" (see below).