Object number
T.327
Title
The Draw, double image
Date
1837
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Framed and mounted: 52.5 x 42.5 cm
image: 34 x 24 cm
Description
Drawing of Nicholas Wanostrocht (Felix) The Draw. Full length figure study of a batsman with bat held behind and with his right leg out in front. Additional sketches iof the batsman's torso and right foot, n the upper left and lower right corners. Original sketch showing Felix as a left-handed bat.
Lithograph of the same subject on reverse.
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This drawing is a study for one of six lithographs illustrating batting positions in cricket made as illustrations to Nicholas Felix’s book on cricket, Felix on the Bat. Felix, one of the leading cricketers of the mid-19th century, was among the first batsmen to use primitive leg-guards. He was also inventor of The Catapulta, an early bowling machine.
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