Lot Essay
Watts has endowed his batsman at the start of play with qualities of valour and aspiration that are unchanging, even if the batsman's crouching stance is not one that a modern coach would encourage.
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GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, O. M., R. A.
Play. Dedicated, with permission, to Henry Kingscote, Esqre by N. Felix
lithograph on tinted paper, heightened with body colour, by and after Watts, London: published by S. Knights, printed by W. Sharp, [ca. 1837], early issue, 305 x 258mm. (12 x 10¼in.), framed and glazed.
Play. Dedicated, with permission, to Henry Kingscote, Esqre by N. Felix
lithograph on tinted paper, heightened with body colour, by and after Watts, London: published by S. Knights, printed by W. Sharp, [ca. 1837], early issue, 305 x 258mm. (12 x 10¼in.), framed and glazed.