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The Political Lady Cricketers



Date:
1892-05-19
Object Number:
M.2019.27
Creator
Edward Linley Sambourne (artist)
Material
pen & ink, paper
Size
Image: 24.3 x 19.7 cm ht x width: 34.5 x 29 cm
Digital reference
Original issue of punch reproduced here; Retrieved 2011-03-17
Object name
cartoon drawing
Object category
pictures

Description

Framed, mounted and glazed, pen and ink print. Two female cricketers in striped shirts, ‘WLF’ (Women's Liberal Federation) on breast pocket. Elderly gentleman (Prime Minister William Gladstone) at wicket in top hat holding a bat labelled ‘suffrage’. Cricket bag in foreground, artists signature an date below.

Display caption

This drawing was first published in Punch magazine in May 28 1892, with the caption "Lady Cricketer: "A team of our own? I should think so! If we're good enough to scout for you, why shouldn't we take a turn at the bat?"
Association:
Women's Liberal Federation
William Ewart Gladstone (subject) 1892 - 1892
Punch 1892 - 1892