Lot Essay
Light spotting, small stain to the Box portrait.
Details
JOHN CORBET ANDERSON
Clarke. Slow Bowler of Nottingham, Secretary to the All England Eleven (Sketches at Lord's No. 12); Hillyer. Born at Leybourne, Kent (Sketches at Lord's No. 3); Box. Born at Ardingley Sussex, 1809 (Sketches at Lord's No. 9)
three hand-coloured lithographs by and after Corbet Anderson, London: published by the artist, Kingsland, and F. Lillywhite, Islington, March 1st 1852, 212 x 136mm. (8¼ x 5½in.), in common mount, framed and glazed.
Clarke. Slow Bowler of Nottingham, Secretary to the All England Eleven (Sketches at Lord's No. 12); Hillyer. Born at Leybourne, Kent (Sketches at Lord's No. 3); Box. Born at Ardingley Sussex, 1809 (Sketches at Lord's No. 9)
three hand-coloured lithographs by and after Corbet Anderson, London: published by the artist, Kingsland, and F. Lillywhite, Islington, March 1st 1852, 212 x 136mm. (8¼ x 5½in.), in common mount, framed and glazed.
Literature
Down & West 14d; 12c; 14a, pp. 130, 128. The partial blindness of the top-hatted William Clarke (1798-1856) was no handicap to him as a bowler for Nottinghamshire or the All England Eleven, which he founded. William Richard Hillyer (1813-61), a lanky figure in top hat and braces, had proved a devastating bowler for the famous Kent Eleven of the 1830's and 40's, and like Clarke and Box also played for All England. Thomas Box (1808-76) of Sussex wears newly-evolved wicket-keeping pads and gloves which indicate that bowling at this period could be quick.