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Victorian XI Team, Australia 1859
- Date:
- 1859
- Object Number:
- M.2015.763
- Creator
- Freeman Bros.
- Production notes
- A note on TP.94.1 states the words 'Skidmore (or Sidmore) Bros Photographer appear on left in pencil on the original. However the place and date are the same.
- Material
- paper
- Size
- 37.6 cm x 49 cm (including mount)
- Digital reference
- Tom Wills biography
- Object name
- photograph
- Object category
- photographs
Description
Sepia group photograph mounted on card of Victorian Cicket Team. 11 players are in Victorian cricket whites either wearing various bow ties. 3 gentlemen are in suits with one in top hat and holding a bat, a scorer with knife and wood and one holding a piece of paper. Posed against a painted backdrop depicting a white tent with a flag and bay in distance with ships on the water.Display caption
The Victorian XI, 1859. In May of that year, Tom Wills (seated, far left), William Hammersley (standing, third from left), J. B. Thompson (seated, second from left) and Thomas H. Smith (not pictured) met at the Parade Hotel, run by Jerry Bryant (standing, second from right), where they wrote the first laws of Australian football.- Association:
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Thomas Wentworth Wills (subject) 1859 - 1859
Victoria Cricket Club (subject) 1859 - 1859
William Hammersley (subject) 1859 - 1859
James Bogne Thompson (subject) 1859 - 1859
James Mark Bryant (subject) 1859 - 1859
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TP.94.1 : Victorian XI, Australia, 1859