FDA-D.1673-2021
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1673-2021
Identification
Title
Ballards, Eton
Ballards
Ballards
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title
Description
Painted view across a street to a house with trees, shrubs and railings in front of it
Comments
Between 1808 and 1922 Ballards was home to four generations of Eton Drawing Masters (Heads of Art) from the Evans family. In the late 1850s and early 1860s, it was also used as accommodation for around six boys at a time. Before the Drawing Schools opened in 1924, boys may have been taught art in the smaller building, with no south-facing windows, seen here beyond Ballards. Davison would have been acquainted with William Sidney Vernon Evans (1866–1949), the last Evans family Drawing Master, until his retirement in 1922.
Description
Dimensions
height (frame): 472mm
width (frame): 613mm
height (actual size): 331mm
width (actual size): 463mm
width (frame): 613mm
height (actual size): 331mm
width (actual size): 463mm
Inscription
Signed in watercolour, lower left: 'NORA DAVISON'
Material
pencil
watercolour
canvas
watercolour
canvas
Production
Person
Davison, Nora, 1855 - 1950 (Artist)
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Celia Carrington; by whom given to Eton College in 2021
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 16)
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 16)
