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The Parsees, 1886



Date:
1886-05-24 - 1886-05-25
Object Number:
TN.2009.1668
Creator
E Hawkins & Company (photographer)
Production notes
Late Hennah & Kent
Material
paper
Size
ht x w: 38 x 43.5 cm
Object name
photograph
Object category
photograph

Description

Framed and mounted, sepia, group photograph. Fifteen cricketers dressed in striped uniforms and two men in street clothes or suit. Posed in front of an ornate, iron fence and greenhouse or pavilion with palms. Names and title below. ‘The Parsees, 1886, played at Sheffield Park May 24, 25.’

Display caption

While the Australian Aboriginal cricketers had been treated with curiosity, the high-caste Parsees who made the first tours to Britain by Indian cricketers were treated more as equals in British society, even playing one match against a team captained by Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen Victoria. The Parsees played at Sheffield Park in 1886.
Association:
Parsee Cricket Team 1886
Related objects:
M.2015.336 : Sheffield Park vs. Parsees, 1886