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A Cricket Match
- Date:
- 1852
- Object Number:
- TN.2009.2385
- Creator
- W. J. Bowden (artist)
- Material
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 68 x 112 cm
- Object name
- painting
- Object category
- pictures
Description
A cricket match in progress. Three scorers and a scoreboard on the outfield left. Spectators on raised ground right, a church with a white tower in the distance to the left.Display caption
A Cricket Match, 1852 W.J. Bowden MCC Collection, accession unknown Oil on canvas TN.2009.2385 Nothing is known about the artist of this picture, apart from his name, but his depiction of a game of cricket in the middle of the 19th century is beautifully realised. With a white-towered church to the left and houses beyond; an assembled crowd, uniformly well-dressed, grouped to the right and others strolling along a path to the left, the scene suggests semi-urban parkland. The location of the scene has never been identified, although two flags bearing the initials “L.C.C.” – one blue on the third man boundary and one red at fine leg – offer a tantalising clue- Association:
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W. J. Bowden (artist)
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MCC/AAL/2/TEMP135 : Curator's correspondence relating to the Bowden Picture
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP476 : Curator's correspondence relating to Drown & Co Ltd, restorers
FORD/TEMP19 : Cricket Life 1898
TN.2017.65 : A Cricket Match