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The Trusty Servant

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The Trusty Servant Medal
References

The Trusty Servant is an emblematic figure in a painting at Winchester College.

The wall-painting called The Trusty Servant, painted by John Hoskins in 1579.^[1] It hangs outside the kitchen of Winchester College in Hampshire, England. The American author Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896) described "the time-honoured Hircocervus, or picture of 'the Trusty-servant,' which hangs near the kitchen, and which emblematically sets forth those virtues in domestics, of which we Americans know nothing. It is a figure, part man, part porker, part deer, and part donkey; with a padlock on his mouth, and various other symbols in his hands and about his person, the whole signifying a most valuable character."^[2] Strictly speaking, the Trusty Servant is not a hircocervus, which is a combination of a goat and a stag: Coxe is using the term loosely to mean a composite animal in general.

The painting of The Trusty Servant had a didactic function: it is accompanied by allegorical verses that associate the servant's various animal parts with distinctive virtues that the students of Winchester College were meant to follow.^[3]

The Latin verses have been translated into English as:

A trusty servant's picture would you see,
This figure well survey, who'ever you be.
The porker's snout not nice in diet shows;
The padlock shut, no secret he'll disclose;
Patient, to angry lords the ass gives ear;
Swiftness on errand, the stag's feet declare;
Laden his left hand, apt to labour saith;
The coat his neatness; the open hand his faith;
Girt with his sword, his shield upon his arm,
Himself and master he'll protect from harm.^[4]

The Trusty Servant Medal

In 2014 Winchester College commissioned a medal by Old Wykehamist Anthony Smith to be awarded to staff in recognition of "Long And Loyal Service". The medal features a relief sculpture of the The Trusty Servant as it appears in the painting.^[5]

The Trusty Servant is also the name of the Winchester College alumni magazine.

References

1. ^Pattern Histories: The Trusty Servant {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204073530/http://www.spode.co.uk/History/trustyservant.htm |date=2008-12-04 }} accessed 29 May 2007
2. ^Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Impressions of England. (1874) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=QA0HAAAAQAAJ&jtp=249#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books])
3. ^Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing "monsters" in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture (New York: Macmillan, 2002), 139.
4. ^Quoted in Howard Staunton, The Great Schools of England (Strahan. 1869), 61n.
5. ^{{cite web|title=Trusty Servant Medal|url=http://anthonysmithart.co.uk/?portfolio=trusty-servant-medal|website=Anthony Smith Sculpture|accessdate=30 October 2016}}

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