FDA-E.3073-2019
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.3073-2019
Object type
Identification
Title
Common Lane House
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
This is Plate 4 (page 6) from 'Eton; painted by E.D. Brinton; described by Christopher Stone', A. & C. Black, London, 1909.
The artist, Edith Brinton, exhibited one example of the original watercolours for the illustrations at the Royal Academy in London, in 1894:
'[A] delightful bit of colouring is the "Schoolyard, Eton College" (1208), by Edith Brinton; the contrast between the gray [sic] stones of the chapel staircase on the right, and the warm red brick of the gateway-tower and the rest of the quadrangle, is most effectively though quietly brought out.'
'The Antiquary Among the Pictures', The Antiquary, June 1894, p.238
The artist, Edith Brinton, exhibited one example of the original watercolours for the illustrations at the Royal Academy in London, in 1894:
'[A] delightful bit of colouring is the "Schoolyard, Eton College" (1208), by Edith Brinton; the contrast between the gray [sic] stones of the chapel staircase on the right, and the warm red brick of the gateway-tower and the rest of the quadrangle, is most effectively though quietly brought out.'
'The Antiquary Among the Pictures', The Antiquary, June 1894, p.238
Description
Dimensions
height (sight size): 103mm
width (sight size): 139mm
width (sight size): 139mm
Inscription
Inscribed on verso of backboard: 'Common Lane House / Eton College / Given by the boys of NAR / to Annie Bretton July 1977'
Production
Person
Brinton, Edith Danvers, 1861 - ? (Source artist)
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Anne Chenevix Trench; by whom presented to Eton College in May 2019
