WILLIAM GILBERT 'W.G.' GRACE, "Cricket", 1877, by 'Spy', Cricketers of Vainty Fair p.28

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The Cricketers of Vanity Fair The following 9 lots comprise all 30 portraits of cricketers wearing cricket apparel, published in Vanity Fair between 1877 and 1913. Most are by 'Spy' (Sir Leslie Ward) or 'Ape' (Carlo Pellegrini). John Arlott, in his introduction to Russell March's The Cricketers of Vanity Fair, says 'The Vanity Fair cricket prints...are an important aspect of cricket pictorial art...To cricket collectors these plates are important...it is doubtful if cricket, or any other English sport, has a more felicitous pictorial file of performers. The Vanity Fair drawings were skillfully executed...and the colour-litho prints were technically extremely well made. They are colourful and pleasing as decoration, and....have been increasingly appreciated and collected...'

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WILLIAM GILBERT 'W.G.' GRACE, "Cricket", 1877, by 'Spy', Cricketers of Vainty Fair p.28

The first cricketer portrait cartoon to be published in Vanity Fair

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