A view of Eaton College [art original].

Description

Title: A view of Eaton College [art original].
Alternative Title: View of Eton College
Creator: Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1740]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A bird's-eye view of Eton College, as seen from across the Thames
Description: Title written in brown ink below image.
Attribution to Bernard Lens from note in pencil on verso: Eton. Drawing by B. Lens - from H. Walpole's collection, bot. at Strawberry Hill Sale. [signed] Gibbs.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
"From Strawberry Hill collection"--Note in pencil below image, in lower left corner of sheet.
Mounted after page 344 (leaf numbered '55' in pencil) in volume 5 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole before being inserted into volume. Sold at Christie's, 20 October 1953, lot 285 of Derby sale, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 21.1 x 32.5 cm, on sheet 24.3 x 33.9 cm, inlaid to 27 x 38 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.5
Collection Title: Volume 5, after page 344. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.

Genre: Bird's-eye views
Ink drawings
Wash drawings
Material: ink and wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Eton College,
Subject (Topic): Boarding schools
Rivers
Boats
Subjects: Eton College
Boarding schools
Rivers
Boats
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Bernard Lens, A view of Eaton College. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.