Lot Essay
Laid down. Creasemarks. Repaired tear and paper abrasion affecting the portrait of Denison.
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After NICHOLAS FELIX
The Eleven of England selected to contend in the Great Cricket Matches of the North for the Year 1847. Guy, Parr, Martingell, A. Mynn, W. Denison Esqr, Dean, Clarke, N. Felix Esqr, O. G. Pell Esqre, Hillyer, Dorrington, Pilch, Sewell
tinted lithograph by N. Ploszczynski with hand-colouring, London: published by Baily Brothers, Cornhill, Nov. 20th 1847, 460 x 625mm. (18 x 24¼in.).
The Eleven of England selected to contend in the Great Cricket Matches of the North for the Year 1847. Guy, Parr, Martingell, A. Mynn, W. Denison Esqr, Dean, Clarke, N. Felix Esqr, O. G. Pell Esqre, Hillyer, Dorrington, Pilch, Sewell
tinted lithograph by N. Ploszczynski with hand-colouring, London: published by Baily Brothers, Cornhill, Nov. 20th 1847, 460 x 625mm. (18 x 24¼in.).
Literature
The Noblest Game 39: "This is the classic piece of portraiture of the players of Clarke's All England Eleven who had such a profound effect in creating and, by example, teaching playing-standards in the mid-nineteenth century." Pageant of Cricket p. 82: "Clarke's momeymaking 'missionaries' of the All-England XI, 1847 ... Dorrington was to die the following year, victim of the cold, damp conditions often experienced by the travelling cricketers."