FDA-D.679-2012
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.679-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
View of Hodgson House from Long Walk, Eton
View of Hodgson House from Long Walk
View of Hodgson House from Long Walk
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title
Description
Street scene, dominated by two large trees without leaves
Comments
There have been buildings on the site of Hodgson House since the 1720s but the frontage we see today was built in about 1844. Davison’s watercolour shows an ostentatious Elizabethan style façade, which earned the building the nickname the ‘Gin Palace’. Davison must have painted this picture before 1926, when some of the ornamentation was removed during renovations. Cat. no. 24 shows the later, simplified façade. Formerly a boarding house, today Hodgson House contains Rowlands, an Eton cafeteria, and Tap, a bar for senior boys.
Other number
CL 611
Description
Content (place)
Eton
Dimensions
height (actual size): 321mm
width (actual size): 414mm
height (sight size): 306mm
width (sight size): 279mm
width (actual size): 414mm
height (sight size): 306mm
width (sight size): 279mm
Inscription
Signed lower right 'Nora Davison'
Signed and dated 1927?
Signed and dated 1927?
Materials & techniques note
Watercolour and body colour
Production
Person
Davison, Nora, 1855 - 1950 (Artist)
Date
1913-1926
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of P.S.H. Lawrence (1913-2005; EWP, 1926-32), purchased for donor’s Eton room at Hodgson House; by whom presented to Eton College in 1993
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 23)
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 23)
