細節
After JOHN COLLET
Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger. Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot, and forty five notches Miss Wicket's just got
hand-coloured mezzotint, London: printed and sold by Carrington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, 1 Jan. 1778, image 330 x 254mm. (13 x 10in.), with margins 373 x 275mm. (14½ x 10¾in.), framed and glazed.
Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger. Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot, and forty five notches Miss Wicket's just got
hand-coloured mezzotint, London: printed and sold by Carrington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, 1 Jan. 1778, image 330 x 254mm. (13 x 10in.), with margins 373 x 275mm. (14½ x 10¾in.), framed and glazed.
出版
The larger version of this satirical print, "one of a series engraved after paintings by Collett, showing 'Ladies' Recreations.' Other titles are: The Female Foxhunter; Miss Tippapin; The Ladies' Shooting Party; and The Pleasures of Skating. Some of the original paintings survive, but that of Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger has been lost. A two-stump wicket and curved bat are shown, as well as a cricket ball with two double-stitched seams crossing at right-angles. Miss Wicket is dressed in ladies' cricket costume, together with one of the high bonnets fashionable at the time. She is shown striking a masculine cross-legged pose of a kind often seen in 18th-century portraits of male cricketers ...." (Simon & Smart Art of Cricket 29, plate 90). Also reproduced in The Noblest Game 20; David Frith Pageant of Cricket (London, Macmillan, 1987) p. 35.