Lot Essay
Laid down. Browning in upper left hand part of the image, browned at blank margins, one medallion portrait slightly rubbed.
Details
After GEORGE HAMILTON BARRABLE and SIR ROBERT PONSONBY STAPLES, Bart.
Australia v. England [at Lord's]
Hand-coloured photogravure, London and Manchester: J. Hildesheimer, [1887 or later], printed by Goupil and Co., 650 x 1060mm. (25½ x 41¾in.), framed and glazed.
With the scarce key plate, 377 x 570mm. (14¾ x 22½in.), framed and glazed. (2)
Australia v. England [at Lord's]
Hand-coloured photogravure, London and Manchester: J. Hildesheimer, [1887 or later], printed by Goupil and Co., 650 x 1060mm. (25½ x 41¾in.), framed and glazed.
With the scarce key plate, 377 x 570mm. (14¾ x 22½in.), framed and glazed. (2)
Literature
Pageant of Cricket p. 155: "A vision of a Test match at Lord's." The Noblest Game 14: "Not a representation of any specific match but a composite picture, made up by the artists of men who played for England and Australia at the time, and notable persons who attended Lord's. W. G. Grace is the batsman, W. W. Read the non-striker, F. R. Spofforth the bowler, and T. W. Garrett is fielding the ball on the extra cover boundary ... the Prince (later King Edward VII) and Princess of Wales are walking towards the stand where several ladies whose names had been linked by gossip with the Prince are averting their heads ... In the right centre foreground, to the right of the pillar, is Lilly Langtry." The huge original, painted in 1886, hangs at Lord's. This is a variant issue of the print, with medallion portraits of the two teams above the title rather than below it. The teams are England: P. G. Barlow, W. Scotton, W. Barnes, A. N. Hornby, Hon. A. Lyttelton, W. G. Grace, A. G. Steel, Lord Harris, G. Ullyett, W. W. Read, A. Shrewsbury and Australia: T. W. Garrett, P. S. McDonnell, S. P. Jones, A. C. Bannerman, H. J. H. Scott, F. R. Spofforth, G. Griffen, G. E. Palmer, J. McBlackham, W. L. Murdoch, C. J. Bonnor.