England's Twelve Champion Cricketers Starting for America Septm 7th 1859

細節

England's Twelve Champion Cricketers Starting for America Sep^t^m 7^t^h 1859
contemporary copy photograph by Hennah of the team on board ship at Liverpool, 145 x 177mm. (5¾ x 7in.), in modern mount, framed and glazed.

出版

Reproduced as the frontispiece to the 1980 edition of The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States by Frederick Lillywhite (first published 1860).

拍品專文

Team: Carpenter, Caffyn, Lockyer, G. Parr, Grundy, Caesar, Hayward, Wisden, Stephenson, Jackson, Diver, John Lillywhite.

Although faded, this print of the "Champion Cricketers" embarking on the first major international tour is ONE OF THE EARLIEST CRICKET PHOTOGRAPHS.