Object number
M.977.C
Title
Portrait of RAH (Mike) Mitchell
Date
1896 - 1896
Creator
Production reason
Drawn for Vanity Fair magazine
Production notes
Spy, In the background and on the reverse are preliminary pencil sketches.
Material
Size
38 x 28 cm
Description
Full length portrait of a gentleman wearing a straw boater hat with a red, black and cream ribbon of I Zingari cricket club. Holding a cane/umbrella horizontally behind his back.
Display caption
Portrait of RAH Mitchell (b.1843 d. 1905),
1896
Leslie Ward ‘Spy’ (b.1851 d.1922)
Watercolour on paper
Full length portrait of former MCC Committee member
Mike’ Mitchell wearing a straw boater with I Zingari
cricket club ribbon by society artist Leslie Ward. These
watercolours were turned into chromolithographs for
publication in Vanity Fair magazine.
Mitchell captained Eton 1858 – 1861 and later, after
obtaining a degree from Oxford, was the schools cricket
master 1866 – 1897.
MCC Collection
Museum Number: M.977.C
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