拍品專文
Laid down on old backing. Two closed tears, spotting, marginal dampstaining.
細節
JOHN CORBET ANDERSON
The United All England Eleven. Hunt, Wright, Adams, Mortlock, Lockyer, Wisden, F. Lillywhite, John Lillywhite, Dean, Caffyn, Grundy, Martingell, Sherman, Sampson
hand-coloured lithograph by and after Corbet Anderson, London: published by F. Lillywhite, Islington, [May 1855], printed by Stannard and Dixon, 705 x 530mm. (27¾ x 20¾in.)
The United All England Eleven. Hunt, Wright, Adams, Mortlock, Lockyer, Wisden, F. Lillywhite, John Lillywhite, Dean, Caffyn, Grundy, Martingell, Sherman, Sampson
hand-coloured lithograph by and after Corbet Anderson, London: published by F. Lillywhite, Islington, [May 1855], printed by Stannard and Dixon, 705 x 530mm. (27¾ x 20¾in.)
出版
Down & West 25, pp. 122-23; Richard Bouwman Glorious Innings (Melbourne, Hutchinson, 1987), p. 35; The Noblest Game 50; Pageant of Cricket p. 88. The United All England Eleven was formed by John Wisden and James Dean in 1852 as a breakaway group from William Clarke's All England Eleven, and like the latter played mainly against local teams fielding as many as twenty-two men. Following Clarke's death, however, the two teams played a series of benfit matches (1857-69), often regarded as the event of the cricket season. This was ANDERSON'S MOST AMBITIOUS CRICKET PRINT, and is considered still rarer than Felix's portrait, executed five years earlier, of the All England Eleven. Bouwman writes: "J. C. Anderson's portrait of the breakaway United All England Eleven creates an image true to the reputation of the professional Victorian cricketer. Gone is the flamboyance and foppishness of eighteenth-century cricket fashion, to be replaced with more workmanlike trousers, shirts, and bowler hats or engineers' caps. Refined postures are no longer the norm; bodies are now thick and yeoman-like, expressing solidity rather than elegance, and enjoyment rather than luxury." Thomas Hunt (1819-58) and George Henry Wright (1822-93) are the only two members of the group not portrayed elsewhere by the artist.