Lot Essay
The first print is laid down and affected by a 4 inch tear. The companion print, on a large untrimmed sheet, has a repaired tear at the lower blank margin.
Details
After GEORGE WINTER
Bullingdon on a Summer's Afternoon [and] Returning from Cricket. A Scene on Magdalen Bridge
two hand-coloured lithographs, Oxford: published by J. Ryman, [ca. 1850], 325 x 422mm. (13 x 16½in.) and 416 x 535mm. (16¼ x 21in.), the first framed and glazed, the other window-mounted. (2)
Bullingdon on a Summer's Afternoon [and] Returning from Cricket. A Scene on Magdalen Bridge
two hand-coloured lithographs, Oxford: published by J. Ryman, [ca. 1850], 325 x 422mm. (13 x 16½in.) and 416 x 535mm. (16¼ x 21in.), the first framed and glazed, the other window-mounted. (2)
Literature
Canon Winter's study of the mixed cricketing and equestrian sports at Bullingdon is reproduced in The Noblest Game 58.