Object number
TN.2009.3158
Title
Lord's on a Gentlemen vs Players Day, Players in the Field
Date
1895 - 1895
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Size
213 x 109.5 cm
Description
Cricketers standing on Lord's cricket pitch. W G Grace in the center left with bat under his arm and wearing scarlet and gold MCC cap. A union flag is at full mast on the pole behind him.
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Lord's on a Gentlemen vs Players Day, Players in the Field, 1895
Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819-1908)
MCC Collection: purchased, 1952
Oil on canvas
TN.2009.3158
W.G. Grace wearing a scarlet and gold MCC cap is pictured at the crease amongst his contemporaries at Lord’s. In the background a packed crowd can be seen watching from the `A’ Enclosure on the site of the current Warner Stand. Behind the flagpole to the side of the recently built Pavilion the coach mound can be seen with its array of covered carriages, the houses and gardens of Elm Tree Road and Grove End Road beyond.
The cricketers depicted (left to right): J.Phillips (umpire), A Ward, AE Stoddart, WG Grace, JT Hearne, GA Lohmann, W Gunn, A Shrewsbury, R Peel, R Briggs, J Wheeler (umpire), M Sherwin, JM Read, WH Lockwood and W Attewell
Lowes Cato Dickinson was the son of a stationer and lithographic publisher. Showing a precocious early talent, he began his career producing lithographic portraits for his father’s business, Joseph Dickinson of Bond Street, London. Later he studied art in Italy and went on to exhibit over a hundred oil paintings and drawings at the Royal Academy between 1848 and 1891. He was also jointly responsible for the Dickinson & Foster print business, which produced highly popular sporting prints in the 1880s and 1890s.
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