The Senate Passage, Cambridge, with the Senate House and Caius College
Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1845 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
340 x 245 mm
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515530
Summary
Oil painting on board, The Senate Passage, Cambridge, with the Senate House and Caius College by Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859), signed and dated J.M. Ince 1845. Senate Passage with Senate House and Caius College, woman in red cloak with stick in centre foreground. Senate Passage runs from Clare and King's Colleges past Caius College with Gate of Honour on left and Senate House on right to Trinity Street. Senate House was built in 1722-30 as Administration Centre of University. Gate of Honour - Edmund Gonville founded Gonville College in 1348 and Dr John Caius richly endowed it in 1559. The students go through three gates during their time in college; first through the Gate of Humility, then the Gate of Virtue and last the Gate of Honour which leads from the College directly to the Senate House where degrees are conferred.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859), artist