FDA-Sc.65-2017
Parts
Object number
FDA-Sc.65-2017
Object type
Identification
Title
Winged Victory
Description
Bronze figure of a winged woman, with arms raised
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 south face of the screen is a cast taken by permission of the Duke of Wellington from the Victory in the hand of Canova's colossal Napoleon, now at Apsley House.'
[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 south face of the screen is a cast taken by permission of the Duke of Wellington from the Victory in the hand of Canova's colossal Napoleon, now at Apsley House.'
[An Illustrated Guide to Eton College / Eton Guide, R. A. Austen-Leigh, 1930, p.70]
Other number
FDA-A.288-2013
Description
Material
bronze
Physical description
Winged female figure with upstretched arms and wings, standing on globe with robes spread out
Production
Person
Canova, Antonio, 1757 - 1822 (Sculptor)
Date
c.1905
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by the friend of an Old Etonian, killed in the Boer War, in c.1905
