Lot Essay
Margins cropped away with loss of imprint. A few soil marks and short, clean tear to one edge.
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JOHN CORBET ANDERSON
The Bowler [(No. 7)]
hand-coloured lithograph by and after Corbet Anderson, [London: published by F. Lillywhite, May 1st 1860], printed by Stannard and Dixon, 252 x 186mm. (10 x 7½in.), framed and glazed.
The Bowler [(No. 7)]
hand-coloured lithograph by and after Corbet Anderson, [London: published by F. Lillywhite, May 1st 1860], printed by Stannard and Dixon, 252 x 186mm. (10 x 7½in.), framed and glazed.
Literature
Down & West 47, p. 138. One of a series, undertaken at the end of Anderson's period as a cricket artist, and derived from the much earlier series by G. F. Watts and the illustrations to Nicholas Wanostrocht's Felix on the Bat. The print gives a good impression of round arm bowling, although Down & West (p. 39) comment: "It is hard to see why Anderson should have chosen such a derivative theme ... perhaps Fred Lillywhite had detected a market for these updated versions. If so he must have miscalculated, as their comparative scarcity today indicates that sales must have been poor."