Scrapbook of cricket artwork, 1784-1864

Reference

SCR84

Date:

1784 - 1864

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of reproductions of drawings and paintings of cricket and cricketers.
The scrapbook includes drawings of the following individuals playing cricket: William Ward, Richard Letby, William Davies (the 'Scorer'), James Henry Dark, Nicholas Felix, Alfred Mynn, Duke of Wellington, Sir R Peel, Lord Morpeth, Sir W Follett, Lord John Russell, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Edgar Willsher, George Griffith, James Lillywhite, W H Caldecourt (the 'Umpire'), Edward Gower Wenman, R A FitzGerald.
The scrapbook also contains a picture of cricket played by the Gentlemen's Club at White Conduit Fields in 1784, a picture of a game of cricket between Kent and All England in 1845, Greenwich Pensioners' Cricket Union at the Priory Grounds near Lewisham, a picture of Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger holding a cricket bat, cricket poems, The Eleven of New England at Boston, Massachusetts on 28 September 1850, Cambridge University students playing cricket in 1843, cricket at the New Ground, Charterhouse, a cartoon series entitled 'Cricket Nightmares', letter from North Dunedin Cricket Club to the captain and team of the All England Eleven requesting a match between the two teams in 1864.

Associations

William Ward
Richard Letby
William Davies
James Henry Dark
Nicholas Felix
Sir Robert Peel
Alfred Mynn
Sir William Webb Follett
John Somerville Russel
Sir James Graham
Edgar Willsher
George Griffith
James Lillywhite
William Henry Caldecourt
Edward Wenman
Robert Allan Fitzgerald
New Dunedin Cricket Club
All England XI
Eleven of New England

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 volume

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