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After FRANCIS HAYMAN
Cricket
engraving by C. Grignon after Hayman's painting of Cricket in Marylebone Fields, [published London, 16 July 1748], 18 x 23¾in. (central fold mark, blank margins trimmed slightly affecting title, lower margin soiled and with short tear), framed and glazed.
Literature
Cardus & Arlott, The Noblest Game, plate 19; Simon & Smart John Player Art of Cricket, 60, plate 11: shows "the full double-wicket game ... the most important of all the early visual records of cricket."

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