FDA-D.822-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.822-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Model of Panelling with Working Design for the Tapestry 'St George Kills the Dragon'
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Model of panelling with pasted on design drawing for a tapestry
Comments
War memorials were installed in both of Eton's chapels. The Memorial Committee had decided that Lower Chapel was to be decorated 'in a manner to call to the mind of boys...the glories and sacrifices of their predecessors'. A decorative scheme of panelling in a Renaissance design frames four tapestries, which treat the life of St George as typifying the fallen Etonians. This mock-up of the second tapestry within panelling depicts St George leaving home, defeating the dragon (the kneeling woman symbolises Belgium), and baptising the heathen. In the background is a vision of peace.
Description
Dimensions
height (sight size): 396mm
width (sight size): 705mm
width (sight size): 705mm
Dimension note
Dimensions for Design only
Inscription
Painted inscription on frame: 'CONTENDERUNT.PERTULERUNT.ORBIERUNT.AERTERNO.VIVENT.COLE.ET' (not all text visible)
Materials & techniques note
Gouache and chalk
Physical description
Wooden frame covered in paper painted with architectural trompe l'oiel
Production
History and association
Associated object
Object history note
Bought at auction 1980's, one of two designs bought from a set of four
Exhibited: 'In Memoriam. Great War Remembrance at Eton', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 June to 12 November 2018 (catalogue number 1)
Exhibited: 'In Memoriam. Great War Remembrance at Eton', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 June to 12 November 2018 (catalogue number 1)
