FDA-Sc.64-2017
Parts
Object number
FDA-Sc.64-2017
Object type
Identification
Title
Nike / Winged Victory
Description
Bronze figure of a winged woman, holding a wreath above her head
Comments
A report on the completion of the 1905 Boer War Memorial project, which involved redesigning the east end of College Chapel, included:
"A bronze figure of Victory cast from the original by Canova by the kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Wellington and a Victory after the antique bronze at Naples have been placed respectively on the outer and inner front of the screen of Lupton's Chapel. These figures were given anonymously by a parent and a friend of one of the Etonians commemorated there [on the plaque listing the names of those killed in the Boer War, in Lupton's Chapel]." [From manuscript ref: MISC/EMF/10]
'Notice... on the top of the screen two small figures of Victory. That on the north, a reproduction of a famous Greek bronze at Naples, was given by the mother of a boy, her only child, who fell in the K.R.R.C. at Ladysmith...'
[An Illustrated Guide to Eton College / Eton Guide, R. A. Austen-Leigh, 1930, p.70]
"A bronze figure of Victory cast from the original by Canova by the kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Wellington and a Victory after the antique bronze at Naples have been placed respectively on the outer and inner front of the screen of Lupton's Chapel. These figures were given anonymously by a parent and a friend of one of the Etonians commemorated there [on the plaque listing the names of those killed in the Boer War, in Lupton's Chapel]." [From manuscript ref: MISC/EMF/10]
'Notice... on the top of the screen two small figures of Victory. That on the north, a reproduction of a famous Greek bronze at Naples, was given by the mother of a boy, her only child, who fell in the K.R.R.C. at Ladysmith...'
[An Illustrated Guide to Eton College / Eton Guide, R. A. Austen-Leigh, 1930, p.70]
Other number
FDA-A.287-2013
Description
Dimensions
height (sight size): 460mm
width (sight size): 200mm
width (sight size): 200mm
Dimension note
Approximate dimensions
Material
bronze
Physical description
Winged female figure with bow and wreath, standing on globe with outstretched robes
Production
Date
c.1905
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by the mother of an Old Etonian, killed in the Boer War, in c.1905
