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New Cricketing Dress



Date:
1854
Object Number:
M.1979.TN.117
Creator
John Leech (artist)
Material
paper
Size
38 x 47.5 cm
Object name
poster cartoon print,
Object category
pictures

Description

Monochrome print with caption 'New cricketing dresses, to protect all England against the present swift bowling'. Two cricketers standing at the wicket wearing exaggerated protective clothing as do the two fielders in the background.

Display caption

Ten years before overarm bowling was legalised, cartoonist John Leech was able to imagine cricketers of the future in protective clothing. In this case the danger was caused not so much by the bowlers as by the Lord’s pitch, widely regarded as the most dangerous in England.
Association:
John Leech (artist)