![MAILEY, Arthur (1886-1967). ‘Picture of English Cricketers passing on their way to the bath rooms Wednesday Morning … Picture of Jack White of England examining wicket at 5.30 AM Wednesday Morning … Picture of Messrs Ponsford, Kippax, Bradman, Hendry, Ryder, Oldfield, Grimmett and Ironmonger on Wednesday Morning’ [scenes from last day of the first Test match in the 1928-29 series, Brisbane, 5 December 1928]. Original caricature sequence in ink with traces of pencil, signed ‘Arthur Mailey’, 288 x 388mm, slightly dust-soiled -- ‘The English Cricketers took their clubs and had a quiet hit around Kooyonga golf links last Sunday’ [scenes of the English team golfing at Kooyonga, Adelaide, end January or early February 1929]. Original caricature sequence in ink with traces of pencil, signed ‘Arthur Mailey’, 294 x 365mm, slight soiling, a few short edge tears. Provenance: Charles Philip Mead (1887-1958, of Hampshire and England, a member of the 1928-29 team) -- Henry Blofe](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12139_0228_000(mailey_arthur_picture_of_english_cricketers_passing_on_their_way_to_th103501).jpg?w=1)
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MAILEY, Arthur (1886-1967). ‘Picture of English Cricketers passing on their way to the bath rooms Wednesday Morning … Picture of Jack White of England examining wicket at 5.30 AM Wednesday Morning … Picture of Messrs Ponsford, Kippax, Bradman, Hendry, Ryder, Oldfield, Grimmett and Ironmonger on Wednesday Morning’ [scenes from last day of the first Test match in the 1928-29 series, Brisbane, 5 December 1928].
Original caricature sequence in ink with traces of pencil, signed ‘Arthur Mailey’, 288 x 388mm, slightly dust-soiled -- ‘The English Cricketers took their clubs and had a quiet hit around Kooyonga golf links last Sunday’ [scenes of the English team golfing at Kooyonga, Adelaide, end January or early February 1929]. Original caricature sequence in ink with traces of pencil, signed ‘Arthur Mailey’, 294 x 365mm, slight soiling, a few short edge tears. Provenance: Charles Philip Mead (1887-1958, of Hampshire and England, a member of the 1928-29 team) -- Henry Blofeld (signed on back of frame).
BRADMAN’S FIRST TEST, and also the last Test match to be played at the old Exhibition Ground, Brisbane. These two story sequences mock the vanquished 1928-29 Australians for their cricket in the opening match and the victorious England team for their golf. England won the first Test by 675 runs, enormously helped, so the artist suggests, by rain early on the morning of the last day. This brings broad smiles to the faces of Percy Chapman and Maurice Tate, but leaves the Australian captain, Jack Ryder, unable to eat breakfast. Jack White is anxious enough about the wicket to examine it at 5.30 in the morning still dressed in his pyjamas. Billy Woodfull, highest scorer in Australia’s second innings of 66, alone stands firm, as his batting partners glumly follow one another back to the pavilion. Third in line is Bradman, out for 1 in the second innings.
Original caricature sequence in ink with traces of pencil, signed ‘Arthur Mailey’, 288 x 388mm, slightly dust-soiled -- ‘The English Cricketers took their clubs and had a quiet hit around Kooyonga golf links last Sunday’ [scenes of the English team golfing at Kooyonga, Adelaide, end January or early February 1929]. Original caricature sequence in ink with traces of pencil, signed ‘Arthur Mailey’, 294 x 365mm, slight soiling, a few short edge tears. Provenance: Charles Philip Mead (1887-1958, of Hampshire and England, a member of the 1928-29 team) -- Henry Blofeld (signed on back of frame).
BRADMAN’S FIRST TEST, and also the last Test match to be played at the old Exhibition Ground, Brisbane. These two story sequences mock the vanquished 1928-29 Australians for their cricket in the opening match and the victorious England team for their golf. England won the first Test by 675 runs, enormously helped, so the artist suggests, by rain early on the morning of the last day. This brings broad smiles to the faces of Percy Chapman and Maurice Tate, but leaves the Australian captain, Jack Ryder, unable to eat breakfast. Jack White is anxious enough about the wicket to examine it at 5.30 in the morning still dressed in his pyjamas. Billy Woodfull, highest scorer in Australia’s second innings of 66, alone stands firm, as his batting partners glumly follow one another back to the pavilion. Third in line is Bradman, out for 1 in the second innings.