Object number
TN.2009.3155
Title
Landscape with Cricket Match in Progress
Date
1743 - 1743
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Size
55 x 71 cm
Description
Cricket match in progress on a sloping hillside. Possibly mid-morning or late afternoon, with the sun half way up on the left hand side. Trees frame the left and right in the foreground. On the extreme left is a cart with three sheep standing nearby. Four men on horse back stand behind a large tent next to two men standing by a horse, which is eating the grass. To their right a man sits on the ground. Five people and a horse are at the entrance to the tent, one is sitting on the ground. A man on horseback stands in the centre of the picture, holding a stick and wearing a blue coat. A large crowd stands behind the field of play facing up the hill. A group of three people stand nearer the players and to the left. Fielders stand at the following positions – wicketkeeper, slip, mid-wicket and mid-off, but on the other side.
Pro0bably on Yorkshire Moors according to card index
Display caption
Paul Sandby
Landscape with Cricket Match in Progress
Watercolour
55 x 71 cm
1743
Sandby was a map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
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