Numero oggetto
TN.2008.765
Titolo
Cricket Match played by the Countess of Derby and other Ladies
Data
1777 - 1779
Creatore
This name listed on MCC card index, but attributed to 'Duchess of Devonshire & Ladies Playing Cricket'
Materiale
Portata
Framed ht x w: 48.5 x 86 cm
Descrizione
Lady Elizabeth Hamilton women's game at the Oaks, Surrey.
Twelve women playing cricket in a rural setting. All women wear tightly corseted dresses and large tilted bonnets. Two stump wicket on left. Bowler in blue dress, bowling along ground on right.
Cricket match played by the Countess of Derby
and other ladies, 1779
‘J.H’ [name unknown]
Drawing
One of the earliest recordings of the game of cricket showing Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby and other aristocratic women playing cricket at the Oaks in Surrey – her ladyship’s rural retreat. At the wicket is Miss Elizabeth Ann Burrell, a renowned batsman whose father had been one of the leading cricketers of the famous White Conduit Cricket Club.
John Fredrick Sackville, Duke of Dorset recorded this match in a drawing because it was an unusual sight for fashionable high society women to play cricket during the late-eighteenth century. It is not known if this drawing is by him or based on the sketch he made in 1777.
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Object Number: TN.2008.765
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