FDA-D.678-2012
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.678-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
View of Hodgson House from the Long Walk, Eton
View of Hodgson House from the Long Walk
View of Hodgson House from the Long Walk
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title
Comments
This watercolour shows Hodgson House with its later, simplified façade. The house was intermittently used as a boarding house between 1844 and 1978.10 With dwindling numbers of boys at the start of the Second World War, it was closed and then requisitioned to house WRENs between 1941 and 1946.
A glimpse of the building to the right shows the window of the bookshop for Eton boys, which has been on this site for over 200 years. Davison regularly exhibited her watercolours here on the Fourth of June and St Andrew’s Day, Eton’s two main open days, when the shop was run by the firm of Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
A glimpse of the building to the right shows the window of the bookshop for Eton boys, which has been on this site for over 200 years. Davison regularly exhibited her watercolours here on the Fourth of June and St Andrew’s Day, Eton’s two main open days, when the shop was run by the firm of Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
Other number
CL 246
Description
Content (place)
Eton
Dimensions
height (actual size): 318mm
width (actual size): 413mm
width (actual size): 413mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Davison, Nora, 1855 - 1950 (Artist)
Date
1926-1940
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Acquired by Eton College in 1978
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 24)
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 24)
