Object number
T.307
Title
View of Eaton College
Date
1803 - 1803-06-01
Creator
Production notes
Possibly all maker details under mount (HL 2019)
Material
Size
Image: 42 x 59 cm
Framed: 59 x 76 cm
Description
Framed, glazed and mounted , monotone etching. View over river and islands to Gothic building in distance, with cricket before. In the right near foreground are three boys in Eton College gowns.Images of young boys swimming, boating and playing.
Title and signatire on mount. Label on reverse with extract from the poem' Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College' by Thomas Gray
Display caption
(reverse) A coloured copy proof. Parker Gallery 1953 £18
2019 Note - This object is not coloured
Association
Related objects
T.320 : Painting of Eton College and Chapel from Slough Road, 1864
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