MCC Scrapbook (Contributions Thankfully Received)

Reference

SCR422

Date:

1793 - 1896

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of correspondence, newspaper cuttings, photographs and cartoons relating to cricket. Includes a drawing of V E Walker, handbill advertising a match at Lord's between two select Elevens of England in 1821, cartoons of matches at Lord's between 1793 and 1825, team photograph of I Zingari with the Royal Artillery, Vanity Fair portrait of W G Grace, cricket cartoons from the publication 'Moonshine', obituary of Robert Grimston, report on a cricket match between the Garrison of Dublin against All Ireland in 1792, drawings of the Australian cricketers which toured England in 1882, photograph of the I Zingari team at Lincolnshire in 1885, drawing of the second Lord's Pavilion by Frank Verity, Vanity Fair portrait of Lord Londesborough, report on the MCC and I Zingari matches in Paris in 1867, sketch drawing of F R Spofforth entitled 'The Demon Bowler', photographs of the 9th Earl of Coventry (MCC President in 1858), photograph of the Earl of Sefton (MCC President in 1862), photograph of Lord Harris, Vanity Fair portrait of the Earl of Cadogan (MCC President in 1873), photographs of I Zingari at Smeeth Paddocks and Sandringham, photographs of I Zingari at Atheneum Cambridge, scorecard from the match at Sevenoaks Vine between the Duke of Dorset's Eleven and Sir Horace Mann's Eleven in June 1780, photographs of I Zingari in Devonshire, cartoons of cricket in Constantinople, photographs of the Somersetshire [Somerset] team in 1896, drawing of the new (1890) Pavilion at Lord's by Thomas Verity, portrait drawings of W L Murdoch, W G Grace, A N Hornby and Ivo Bligh, cartoon by W Lucas of F R Spofforth entitled 'The Demon Bowler. How's That Umpire?', drawings of the Australian team which played against Surrey in 1882, drawing of a cricket match at The Oval between pensioners of Greenwich Hospital, portrait drawings of John Lillywhite and H H Stephenson, cartoon drawing of W G Grace eating a pork chop, Vanity Fair drawing of Lord Hawke, newspaper photograph of L C H Palairet and H T Hewett standing in front of the scoreboard after their record-breaking partnership for Somerset vs. Yorkshire in 1892, drawing of Lord's in 1858, cartoon of W G Grace welcoming kangaroos in cricket blazers to Australia with the caption 'Welcome, Australia!' in 1893, photograph of the Surrey team in 1892, Vanity Fair drawing of S M J Woods entitled 'Sammy', newspaper photograph of a cricket match at Santos in Brazil.

The scrapbook is embossed with the words 'M.C.C. Scrapbook: Contributions Thankfully Received) on the front cover.

Associations

Samuel Moses James Woods
Vyell Edward Walker
I Zingari
Royal Artillery Cricket Club
William Gilbert Grace
Robert Grimston
William Henry Forester Denison
Francis Thomas Verity
Thomas Verity
William Gilbert Grace
Ninth Earl of Coventry George
William Philip Molyneux
George Robert Canning Harris
George Viscount Chelsea Cadogan
William Lloyd Murdoch
Albert Neilson Hornby
Ivo Bligh
James Lillywhite Snr.
Heathfield Harman Stephenson
Martin Bladen Hawke
Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet
Herbert Tremenheere Hewett

Subject

Australia in England 1882, MCC in Paris 1867, I Zingari in Paris 1867, 18th century cricket, cricket in Ireland, cricket in Constantinople, cricket in Brazil

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

French, English

Size

1 volume

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