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FDA-P.148-2010

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Object number

FDA-P.148-2010

Object type

Identification

Title

College Servant (Butler) with Ox-Eye Cup, possibly Edward Wise
Portrait of Eton College servant with ox-eye cup

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
Previous title

Comments

Titled as 'In the Buttery' when reproduced in 'The Plate of Eton College', see references. Called 'Edward Wise' in 'Below Stairs: 400 years of Servants Portraits', ed. by Anne French and Giles Waterfield (London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2003), p. 81 (see fig. 15). The caption for fig. 15 identifies the butler and cites in a footnote the source for this information: 'Information from Timothy Connor, Eton College'.

A photo of the painting is at the Yale Center for British Art, which gives as the source for the photograph 'Courtauld B73/262.'

Other number

FDA-P.518-2014

Description

Content (person)

Content (note)

Head and shoulders, holding silver, knife with bread on

Dimensions

height (sight size): 740mm
width (sight size): 630mm

Physical description

Black lacquer and gilt wood frame

Production

Person

Unknown (Artist)

Date

c.1680

History and association

Object history note

Exhibited: 'Six Centuries of Food & Dining at Eton College', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 14 June 2021 to 31 October 2021

References

• Jones, E. Alfred, The Plate of Eton College, The London Saint Catherine Press, 1938 (p. 11)
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