FDA-E.3173:8-2020
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.3173:8-2020
Object type
Identification
Title
Weston's Yard. Entrance to the Playing Fields
Title Type
assigned by artist
Description
Coloured print depicting a view of an archway with foliage growing over it, through which grass and trees can be seen; a red brick building to the right of the archway, with railings in front of it
Comments
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): 217mm
width (frame): 277mm
width (frame): 277mm
Inscription
Lettered below image, lower left: '8. WESTON'S YARD. ENTRANCE TO PLAYING FIELDS'; and inscribed in red ink on verso: '9'
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
