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FDA-D.1748-2024

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Identification

Title

Distant View of Eton College

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Dimensions

height (frame): 270mm
width (frame): 508mm

Inscription

Inscribed in pencil, lower centre: 'Eton No.1'; and lower right: 'Eton No.2'
Old label inscribed on reverse:
'THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS 1803-1874 N.W.S.
Eton seen at a distance over meadows. The school founded by Henry IV [as written] in 1440 near Windsor but in Buckinghamshire.
Pencil 3 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches, sketchbook pages conjoined.
In 1849 Boys exhibited two w/cols on Windsor and of Eton at the N.W.C.S.'

Materials & techniques note

Pencil on paper

Production

Date

c.1849

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Private collection; presented to the Old Etonian Association, by whom presented to Eton College in December 2022.
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