Sixth-Form Bench, Eton

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

This lithographic print is one of a series of six, published in 1852 as ‘A Few Recollections of Eton’. The prints were engraved by Percival Skelton, from his own watercolours and published by the firm of Day and Sons. The other works in the series were titled: ‘School Yard Eton’; ‘The Brocas’; ‘The Dell, Windsor Park’; ‘College and Street, Eton’; and ‘Locks near Eton’. The Government Art Collection also includes an example of the lithograph ‘Locks near Eton’ (GAC 4776).

Places

England, Eton College, Berkshire

Subjects

reading (as Subject), topography, Victorian Genre, tree, swan, river bank, river, boy, academic gown, top hat, student, school, bench, punt

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Percival Skelton

Title

Sixth-Form Bench, Eton

Date

1852

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, December 1958

GAC number

4775