FDA-E.3173:10-2020
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.3173:10-2020
Object type
Identification
Title
College Kitchen. Exterior
Title Type
assigned by artist
Description
Coloured print depicting a view of a red brick building with several chimneys seen through tall trees; with some yellow and white flowering foliage in the foreground
Comments
Eton master and watercolourist H.E. Luxmoore was approached by publisher A & C Black to paint illustrations for a book about Eton. He produced a series of watercolours of lesser-known views of the College. A & C Black urged him to add in the famous sites or collaborate with another artist. But Luxmoore refused and instead self-funded the publication of a portfolio of prints for framing, titled Eton from a Backwater. He gave the profits to the Eton Memorial Building Fund, which raised money for the construction of School Hall and Library as memorials to Old Etonians who had fallen in the Boer War.
This work is from a group of prints and books bequeathed to Eton by Basil David Barton (1920-2009), who was at Eton in the 1930s and opening batsman for the first XI.
This work is from a group of prints and books bequeathed to Eton by Basil David Barton (1920-2009), who was at Eton in the 1930s and opening batsman for the first XI.
Description
Dimensions
height (frame): 278mm
width (frame): 217mm
width (frame): 217mm
Inscription
Lettered below image, lower left: '10. COLLEGE KITCHEN. EXTERIOR': and inscribed in red ink on verso: '11'
Material
paper
ink
ink
Production
Person
Luxmoore, Henry Elford, 1841 - 1926 (Artist)
Date
1908
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Basil David Barton (1920-2009); by whom bequeated to Eton College
