Warden Nicholas recorded his expenditure on this painting in a pocket-book, now in the College Archives, immediately below another item dated September 1694.

William Barfoot (or Barefoot) first appears in the Bursar’s Accounts in 1684-5, and references to him continue until 1713-14.

The view is of the College from the north, looking towards St Catherine’s Hill to the left, and showing the Hospital of St Cross to the right. It is based on an engraving in David Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata, published in 1675.

This is probably one of the two paintings ‘of perspective’ referred to in the 1734 inventory of the Warden’s Picture Gallery (with Ao90).

Literature: H.C. Adams, Wykehamica: A History of Winchester College and Commoners (Oxford, 1878), frontispiece; A.K. Cook, About Winchester College (London, 1917), frontispiece and pp. 570-72; H. Chitty, ‘Our College Landscape Etc.’, The Wykehamist, no. 662 (June 1925), pp. 100-101; Winchester Archaeological Society, Winchester College: its history, buildings and customs (Winchester, 1926), p. 160; R. Custance (ed.), Winchester College, sixth-centenary essays (Oxford, 1982), plate 30; P. Quarrie, Winchester College and the King James Bible (Winchester, 2011), inside rear cover

Provenance: Painted for Warden John Nicholas, 1694 (‘Painter for the landskip of the Colledge 4.0.0.’)

Location: Fellow’s Library