Album of images

Reference

DRA/I

Level of description

file

Extent

1 folder

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Collection (DRA)

Scope and Content

Photograph album of images relating to cricket, used in books published by David Rayvern Allen including 'Cricket: An Illustrated History'.
The album includes the following images:
Sketch by R M Alexander of a batsman being bowled by female cricketers, reproduced in the pages of Victoriana, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 5)
Cricket at Dagona, Papua New Guinea, 1968 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 105)
A game at Dupper Fields, Marylebone, 1793 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 16)
Part of the relevant section in the Guildford Court Book that includes the word creckett (cricket), nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 16)
Illustrated Manuscript at the Bodleian Library from Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert, dated 1120-1130, with an article by William Brockbank called 'Is This An Early Illustration Of Cricket?' (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 13)
The earliest cricket bat, owned by James (John) Chitty of Knaphill Surrey, 1729 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 21)
A page from the Hambledon Minute Book outlining the standing toasts, 1781 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 22)
Posed figure portraits from the notebook of George Shepherd Senior, of leading cricket personalities including Thomas Lord, T Walker, Lord Beauclerk and David Harris, 1790 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 28)
Cricket match played at Lord's Ground, Marylebone, 20 June 1793 between the Earls of Winchilsea and Darnley engraved by Cook and published in the Sporting Magazine, 1793 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 29)
Bat of Charles Clapshaw held in the MCC Museum, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 33)
Map of Marylebone Park showing Lord's Second Ground, c1811-1813 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 49)
A cricket match played on 25 July 1857 at Hunsdonbury, the seat of E P Calvert Esquire, between the Royal Artillery and the Hundonsbury Club, 1857 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 56)
A cricketing gaslamp, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 76)
James Lilywhite Junior, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 80)
Ball commemorating Wilfred Rhodes' achievement of taking 15 wickets for 124 runs for England vs. Australia at Melbourne, 1 January 1904 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 84)
Terracotta gargoyle of Lord Harris supporting the upper terrace of the Pavilion, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 85)
Advertisement for 'The Original English Lady Cricketers' (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 92)
Bat presented to the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram by J B Hobbs, 21 December 1930 (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 101)
Copper/Zinc buckle of a batsman being bowled discovered in 1979, believed to have been made in the 18th century, with a history of the buckle by C L R James, and stamps of Jamaican cricketers J L Hendriks, G A Headley, M A Holding, A F Rae and R K Nunes attached, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 112)
A match at Selangor, Malaysia (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 137)
Picture of men doctoring the pitch at nighttime, possibly at Lord's, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 144)
Bat showing the 1954-1955 MCC tour of Australia players caricatured in wood, nd (in Allen's book 'Cricket: An Illustrated History', page 149)
Amar Singh practicing his bowling, nd
Drawing of a reminiscence of Lord's Cricket Ground (Eton vs. Harrow), nd
'Some Songs Without Words' cricket cartoons advertising The Sun newspaper, nd
Picture of the Singhalese Sports Club Grounds, Colombo, Sri Lanka, by Ivor Baptiste, 1975 (presented to MCC by D L Seneviratne)
Picture of Hong Kong Cricket Club, by Ed Knight, 1955
Cartoon drawing 'Cricketus Aquarius' by the artist for The Sun newspaper, 1902
Photograph of the 'Original' Lady Cricketers, 1890
A representation of the noble game of cricket as played in the celebrated cricket field near White Conduit House, August 1787
Front page of the book 'New Articles of the Game of Cricket as settled and revised at the Star and Garter, Pall Mall, February the 25th 1774' with an illustration entitled 'An emblematical Representation of the Game of Cricket'
Advertisement for a match played by two elevens of 'The Original English Lady Cricketers' organised by the English Cricket and Athletic Association Limited, 1890
Photograph of a re-enactment of an 18th-19th century cricket match in the 20th century
Illustration of cricketers practicing their batting stroke, entitled 'Felix Qui Potuit Rerum (Rear 'Em)
Advertisement for a performance of 'Philaster: Or Love Lies A Bleeding' at the Theatre, Leeds, which included a dance called 'The Cricketers, or the Sports of Chapel-Town', 12 June 1780
Two photographs of a scrapbook of illustrations/pictures of Surrey cricketers including J B Hobbs, nd
Photograph of a batsman checking his protective box, nd
Photograph of a gentleman holding a cricket bat wearing a suit (possibly J M Barrie)
Photograph of an unknown Indian cricket ground, nd
Advertisement for a comic cricket match at The Oval between Dan Leno's music hall artist's team, and T R Dewar MP's old English team at The Oval, 5 September 1901

Associations

Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir John Berry Hobbs
Amar Singh
Cyril Lionel Robert James

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English, 6574, , , , , , , , ,

Size

1 folder

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