FDA-D.1762-2024

Parts

Object number

FDA-D.1762-2024

Object type

drawing

Identification

Title

View South from the Burning Bush, Eton
Slough Road, Eton, Looking South
The Burning Bush, Eton

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title

Comments

The Victorian lamp post seen to the right of the composition is known at Eton as the 'Burning Bush'.

Other number

CN-06

Description

Dimensions

height (frame): 368mm
width (frame): 488mm
height (actual size): 185mm
width (actual size): 294mm

Inscription

Signed in watercolour, lower right: 'NORA DAVISON'

Old labels and inscriptions on back of frame:
'NORA DAVISON. FL: 1881-1905 'THE BURNING BUSH, ETON' WATERCOLOURS. SIGNED. £485. Nicholas Bowlby 9 Castle Street Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1XJ 01892 540049 www.nicholasbowlby.co.uk [label x 2, 1 with red sticker over price]
'Nora Davison Bought from Nick Bowlby'
Inscribed on reverse: 'mie'

Materials & techniques note

Pencil and watercolour on paper

Production

Person

Davison, Nora, 1855 - 1950 (Artist)

Date

1913-1950

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: With Nicholas Bowlby, Tunbridge Wells (dealer);; collection of Charles Nugent (1962-2023; CNCA, MCM, 1975-1979); by whom bequeathed to Eton College

Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 12)