Lot Essay
The original painting, executed in 1855, was part of the Colman Gift to the M.C.C.
Details
After JOHN RITCHIE
Village Cricket
chromolithograph, [1855 or later], 355 x 488mm. (14 x 19¼in.), close framed and glazed.
Village Cricket
chromolithograph, [1855 or later], 355 x 488mm. (14 x 19¼in.), close framed and glazed.
Literature
The Noblest Game 47: "Of the many paintings of village cricket executed in this period, this is one of the more imaginative and least bleak. It has been suggested that it is of a match at Hambledon, but it might be almost any south-country village ground, and the church tower is not that of Hambledon." Pageant of Cricket p. 94: "evocative as an old cricket painting could ever be."