Object number
M.28.2.3
Title
Embroidery Design Cartoon for Ashes Urn Bag
Date
1883 - 1883
Creator
Production reason
To house the Ashes urn
Material
Size
Image: 9.5 x 9.5 cm
Framed: 26.6 x 24.6 cm
Description
Framed, glazed and mounted design cartoon. Initial design for bag made to hold the Ashes Urn by Mrs Fletcher. Laurel wreath, ‘1883’ in centre. Newspaper clipping on reverse, appears to have no connection to cartoon. Newspaper cutting of cricket match between Visitors and New Norfolk, in Tasmania. Mr Fletcher played in this match. See letter in Archive.
Headed hotel note paper clipping from room 51, Gasthof zum Anker (Anchor Hotel), Coblenz. This object is dated 12 April 1871. Colbeck L.A.C went to China ¼ mile. Coblenz on the Rhine Moselle 1871.
Display caption
The story of the Ashes is as much a story of women as of cricket. Lady Clarke, receiving a visit from Hon. Ivo Bligh and the gentlemen of his touring team in 1882/83 at her Ruperswood home, was amused that he had come to retrieve the ashes of English cricket.
Observing also his growing romance with her family governess, Florence Morphy, she presented Bligh with a small pottery urn as a token of his mission. Her friend Mrs Fletcher made this velvet bag to contain the urn.
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