Lot Essay
FINE CONDITION. A few light surface abrasions to right hand margin.
Details
JOHN CORBET ANDERSON
Julius Caesar, Born at Godalming Surrey, March 25th 1830
hand-coloured, tinted lithograph by and after Corbet Anderson, London: published by F. Lillywhite and Wisden, June 24th 1858, printed by Stannard and Dixon, 320 x 215mm. (12¾ x 8½in), framed and glazed.
Julius Caesar, Born at Godalming Surrey, March 25th 1830
hand-coloured, tinted lithograph by and after Corbet Anderson, London: published by F. Lillywhite and Wisden, June 24th 1858, printed by Stannard and Dixon, 320 x 215mm. (12¾ x 8½in), framed and glazed.
Literature
Down & West 34, pp. 64-65. The print is suggestive of great sturdiness and extraordinary physical strength. Julius Caesar (1830-78) of Surrey, All England and the United South of England, was, indeed, among the strongest of batsmen. The scorecard for the match between the Eleven of All England and the Earl of Stamford's Twenty-Two in June, 1856 (lot 123 in this sale) reveals that he was top scorer with an innings of 60. But he was also a player of nervous temperament who became dejected whenever he made a low score. He had a morbid dread of fire, deep enough to convince him "that any hotel in which he slept was liable to be burnt to the ground during the night." Caesar was also one of the four players included by Anderson in Sketches of the Surrey Cricketers.