FDA-D.886-2013

Object number

FDA-D.886-2013

Object type

drawing

Title

College Chapel and Baldwin’s Bec from Fellows’ Eyot, Eton
College Chapel and Baldwin's Bec from Fellows' Eyot
College from Luxmoore's Garden

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title

Comments

This view of Eton College Chapel is painted from Fellows’ Eyot, the field between the chapel and the River Thames. Henry VI’s intention was to build an enormous church at Eton, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, that would become a European centre of pilgrimage. Although the chapel is not as large as Henry planned, it still dominates the landscape.
In the 1960s, Baldwin’s Bec boarding house (on the left) was extended and renovated as part of the work carried out on nearby Corner House and Baldwin’s Shore. Davison’s view is somewhat obscured today by the growth of trees and shrubs in the area.

Other number

20010000010240
MEL.314:03-2010

Content (place)

Eton College

Dimensions

height (actual size): 300mm
width (actual size): 210mm
height (sight size): 275mm
width (sight size): 195mm

Physical description

Plain gilt frame, glazed

Person

Davison, Nora, 1855 - 1950 (Artist)

Date

1913-1950

Object history note

Transferred from MEL

Provenance: Collection of Major G. Thorne; by whom presented to Eton College on 4 August 1993

Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 34)