FDA-A.848-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.848-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Edmond Warre Testimonial and Cabinet
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Carved oak cabinet with illuminated and inscribed doument framed within the door.
Comments
This late Victorian gothic cabinet, with an illuminated, handwritten testimonial (or address) incorporated, was made for retiring Head Master Edmond Warre. It originally contained a book of signatures, now held in the Eton College Archives Collection (ref: ED 497).
'[The] portrait [of Dr Warre by Sargent] was the outcome of a subscription by more that 1500 old Etonians, and from the same fund was presented to Warre himself a replica of the Ladies' Plate and an illuminted address in a beautifully bound book with the signatures of all the subscribers.'
[Source: Edmond Warre D.D., C.B., C.V.O.: Sometime Headmaster and Provost of Eton College' by C.R.I. Fletcher, London 1922, pp.225-226]
'[The] portrait [of Dr Warre by Sargent] was the outcome of a subscription by more that 1500 old Etonians, and from the same fund was presented to Warre himself a replica of the Ladies' Plate and an illuminted address in a beautifully bound book with the signatures of all the subscribers.'
[Source: Edmond Warre D.D., C.B., C.V.O.: Sometime Headmaster and Provost of Eton College' by C.R.I. Fletcher, London 1922, pp.225-226]
Description
Inscription
Testimonial is inscribed :
'To Edmond Warre DD
Head Master of Eton
The undersigned old Etonians desire to record their gratitutde and
admiration for your career as man and boy At Eton Newcaste Scholar
and winner of the Pulling, then at Oxford Scholar of Balliol, Fellow of All Souls,
President of the University Boart Club, and Founder of the Volunteer Corps',
again at Eton Assistant Master for twenty-four and Headmaster for twenty-one
years, you have given your school the utmost you could give her - all the powers
of your mind, all the vigour of your manhood
Whilst taking the foremost part in many great and needful changes, you
have left the ancient spirit of the place unchanged. By force of character,
self devotion and sound judgment, by manliness and sincerety you have won
the respect of men and the love of boys. These words, and the gifts which
accompany them, are but the inadequate expression of feelings which fill the hearts
of many thousand Etonians in all parts of the World, to whom the name of
Edmond Warre recalls whatever is best and noblest in their
well-loved School.
Signed on behalf of Fifteen Hundred Etonians & [signatures]'
'To Edmond Warre DD
Head Master of Eton
The undersigned old Etonians desire to record their gratitutde and
admiration for your career as man and boy At Eton Newcaste Scholar
and winner of the Pulling, then at Oxford Scholar of Balliol, Fellow of All Souls,
President of the University Boart Club, and Founder of the Volunteer Corps',
again at Eton Assistant Master for twenty-four and Headmaster for twenty-one
years, you have given your school the utmost you could give her - all the powers
of your mind, all the vigour of your manhood
Whilst taking the foremost part in many great and needful changes, you
have left the ancient spirit of the place unchanged. By force of character,
self devotion and sound judgment, by manliness and sincerety you have won
the respect of men and the love of boys. These words, and the gifts which
accompany them, are but the inadequate expression of feelings which fill the hearts
of many thousand Etonians in all parts of the World, to whom the name of
Edmond Warre recalls whatever is best and noblest in their
well-loved School.
Signed on behalf of Fifteen Hundred Etonians & [signatures]'
Materials & techniques note
watercolour and gold leaf on paper; oak cabinet with iron fittings
Physical description
Illuminated testimonial fromed within the door of a heavy Victorian gothic oak cabinet, carved with the arms of Eton College, four elaborate cast iron hinges and catch, and wall hanging eyelets.
Production
Person
Nutt, Alfred Young, 1847 - 1924 (Artist)
Date
1906
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Dr Edmond Warre by Eton College in 1906;; sold through Dominic Winter Auctions, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire on 12 Sep 2018 (Lot 85); from which sale purchased by Eton College
