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Object number
TN.2009.3153
Title
Landscape with a cricket match
Date
1750 - 1775
Creator
John Laporte (artist), Paul Sandby (artist), Richard Wilson
Production notes
According to Doerr valuers 2018The attribution to Paul Sandby is no longer generally accepted and the alternative, but untenable attribution to Richard Wilson (1713-1782) has been proposed. (Simon, Art of Cricket, 1983)
Material
gouache on paper
Size
39 x 54 cm (image 29 x 43 cm)
Description
A cricket game in progress, framed by silver birch trees in the foreground. On the left, on top of the hill, is a canvas tent with spectators and two horses.
Display caption
Paul Sandby, R.A. Landscape with a Cricket Match (1774) Oil on canvas MCC Collection TN.2009.3153
Related objects
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP268 : Exhibitions
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP95 : Curator's correspondence relating to loans to the Museum of English Rural Life
TN.2009.3155 : Landscape with Cricket Match in Progress
TD/346/4/11 : Landscape with Cricket Match
Exhibitions
The Noble Game of Cricket : Cricket Memorial Gallery
Sandby Exhibition, Reading Museum and Art Gallery : Reading Museum and Art Gallery
Sandby Exhibition, Bolton : Bolton City Art Gallery
The Rural Game of Cricket : The Museum of English Rural Life
Cricket Exhibition : National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes

Exhibition of Cricket Pictures : Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Object name
painting
Object Category
pictures