FDA-D.206-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.206-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
The Wall Game - Good Calx, a Shy at Goal
The Wall Game, College Field
The Wall Game, College Field
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
assigned by cataloguer
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
The earliest portrayal of this exclusively Eton Game, suggesting its connection with football. The tawny colours and chestnut seller show this is an autumn sceen. Paired with the Cricket game, this seems to be another work of the mid 1830s.
Other number
CL 159
Description
Content (object)
sports & games
Content (place)
Eton College
Content (note)
Good Calx shy at goal
Dimensions
height (sight size): 660mm
width (sight size): 920mm
height (frame): 787mm
width (frame): 1038mm
depth (frame): 42mm
width (sight size): 920mm
height (frame): 787mm
width (frame): 1038mm
depth (frame): 42mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil and watercolour heightened with white
Physical description
Modern gilt frame
Production
Person
Evans, William, 1798 - 1877 (Artist)
Date
c.1835
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Miss Nancy Radcliffe Platt; by whom presented to Eton College in memory of the donor's brother, John Roodhurst Platt (Captain of the Oppidans in 1909), in 1975
Exhibited: 'William Evans of Eton', The Brewhouse Gallery, Eton, 1998, cat. no.36; 'A Genius for Watercolour', Christie’s, London, 2003, cat. no. 15
Exhibited: 'William Evans of Eton', The Brewhouse Gallery, Eton, 1998, cat. no.36; 'A Genius for Watercolour', Christie’s, London, 2003, cat. no. 15
References
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.81, no.21, illustrated in colour)
• Connor, L.M., William Evans of Eton 1798-1877, exhibition catalogue, Brewhouse, Eton 1998 (p.52)
• Connor, L.M., William Evans of Eton 1798-1877, exhibition catalogue, Brewhouse, Eton 1998 (p.52)
