Editing Winchester College (section)

=== ''The Trusty Servant'': the school mascot ===

[[File:Winchester Trusty Servant 2.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[The Trusty Servant]]'': 19th-century print|alt=Old-fashioned allegorical print of a man in a long buttoned coat and hose, wearing a sword and holding tools in his hand, with a pig's head and donkey's ears]]

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The Trusty Servant is an emblematic figure in a painting at Winchester College, that serves as the school's unofficial mascot and the name of its alumni magazine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Publications |url=https://wincollsoc.org/news/publications |publisher=Winchester College |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629041531/https://wincollsoc.org/news/publications |url-status=dead }}</ref> A painting of ''The Trusty Servant'' and accompanying verses both devised by the poet [[John Hoskins (poet)|John Hoskins]] in 1579 hangs outside the college kitchen. The current version was painted by William Cave the Younger in 1809. The painting depicts a mythical creature with the body of a man, the head of a pig, with its snout closed with a padlock, the ears of an ass, the feet of a stag, and tools in his left hand.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Skull |first1=Joseph |editor1-last=Foster |editor1-first=Richard |title=50 Treasures from Winchester College. |publisher=SCALA |isbn=9781785512209 |page=86 |chapter=Dr Collegio Wintoniensi, 1640s|date=30 January 2019 }}</ref> The verses are on the virtues that pupils of the college were supposed to have. The college arms are shown in the background of the painting.<ref>{{cite book |author=Burnett, Mark Thornton |title=Constructing "monsters" in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture |publisher=Macmillan |year=2002 |page=139}}</ref>