FDA-Sc.79-2017
Parts
Object number
FDA-Sc.79-2017
Object type
Identification
Title
Unidentified Man
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted papier mache bust of a man
Comments
This bust was used as a replacement for a bust of Charles Fox Townshend which used to be located in the Pop Room at Eton, but is now untraced. The original bust was by or after Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781–1841) and similar to the version in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge. Townshend's bust can be seen at in photographs of the Pop Room dating from c.1895.
Townsend was a boy at Eton from 1807 to 1812. He was also founder of the Eton Society.
'The founder of the [Eton] Society was Charles Fox Townshend, whose bust, which adorns the Club rooms, was shewn at the Eton Loan Exhibition of 1891.'
[Source: 'The Eton Society', Eton College Chronicle, No. 902, Friday, November 30, 1900, p.932]
Both this and the original bust, mentioned above, were formerly displayed on a wooden plinth with the painted inscription: 'In Testimony of the Gratitude which is felt by the Eton Society for the exertions of its founder Charles Fox Townshend NA June 28 1795. OB April 2 1817'
Townsend was a boy at Eton from 1807 to 1812. He was also founder of the Eton Society.
'The founder of the [Eton] Society was Charles Fox Townshend, whose bust, which adorns the Club rooms, was shewn at the Eton Loan Exhibition of 1891.'
[Source: 'The Eton Society', Eton College Chronicle, No. 902, Friday, November 30, 1900, p.932]
Both this and the original bust, mentioned above, were formerly displayed on a wooden plinth with the painted inscription: 'In Testimony of the Gratitude which is felt by the Eton Society for the exertions of its founder Charles Fox Townshend NA June 28 1795. OB April 2 1817'
Other number
FDA-A.340-2013
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 540mm
width (actual size): 430mm
depth (actual size): 260mm
width (actual size): 430mm
depth (actual size): 260mm
Dimension note
Height not including plinth
Materials & techniques note
Painted papier mache on wooden plinth
History and association
Object history note
Exhibited: Eton Loan Exhibition, Eton College, 1891
