FDA-D.1590-2017
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1590-2017
Object type
Identification
Title
An Eton Boy, possibly George Heneage
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Portrait of a boy, head and shoulders
Other number
84481
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 323mm
width (actual size): 234mm
height (mount): 455mm
width (mount): 370mm
width (actual size): 234mm
height (mount): 455mm
width (mount): 370mm
Inscription
Signed in black chalk 'Gerald Leet'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse 'Heneage? / FJAC', '54', '84481'
Inscribed on mount (beneath drawing) 'SEPIA PG/54', and on reverse 'Gerald Leet (1913-1998) / '?Heneage' possibly George (Heneage) / Portrait of an Etonian c.1948 / chalk', '84481'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse 'Heneage? / FJAC', '54', '84481'
Inscribed on mount (beneath drawing) 'SEPIA PG/54', and on reverse 'Gerald Leet (1913-1998) / '?Heneage' possibly George (Heneage) / Portrait of an Etonian c.1948 / chalk', '84481'
Materials & techniques note
Brown, black and white chalk on buff paper, mounted on a window mount with a wash border
Production
Person
Leet, Gerald Mackenzie, 1913 - 1998 (Artist)
Date
1946-1949
History and association
Object history note
Abbott and Holder, London, on 06/2009; from whom purchased by Eton College, Eton, on 07 November 2017
