Object number
TN.2008.1106
Title
England vs. Australia at Lord's, 1938
Date
1938 - 1938
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Size
109 x 156 cm
Description
Cricket match in progress as seen from the North Clock Tower (west). Lord’s Pavilion in the distance. Square grey power station buildings on the left behind the stands.
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England vs. Australia at Lord's, 1938
Charles Ernest Cundall (1890-1971)
MCC Collection: commissioned 1938
Oil on canvas
TN.2008.1106
Lord’s as seen from the top of `G’ stand; this painting captures the Second Test against Australia, 24-28th June 1938. The drawn match was notable for double centuries by England captain Walter (Wally) Hammond and Bill Brown, the Australian opening batsman. Don Bradman, the Australian skipper, made an undefeated century as Australia chased a remote target of 315 on the final day.
Documented by English painter of topographical subjects Charles Ernest Cundall it documents the skyline in St John’s Wood just before the Second World War. It is dominated by the huge power station which threatened to cause such damage to the paintings in the Pavilion that they all had to be glazed.
Cundall was born in Lancashire, studied at the Royal College of Art and served with the Royal Fusiliers in the First World War, he was wounded in the right arm and painted this picture with his left. He was a member of the Royal Academy and exhibited widely across London at the Imperial War Museum, Tate and National Gallery.
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TD/346/4/5 : England vs. Australia at Lord's, 1938
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