Object number
TP.94.1
Title
Victorian XI, Australia, 1859
Date
1946-03-18
Creator
Production notes
Written on reverse: On the original the words ‘Skidmore (Sidmore?) Bros, Photographers’ appears below left in pencil – on the right the word ‘Sydney’ and the date ‘1859’ This name does not appear on the original.
Material
Size
ht x w: 27.1 x 40.6 cm
Description
Black and white copy, re-photographed by Wallace Heaton 18/3/1946 of a sepia group photograph.
Fourteen men posed against a painted backdrop depicting a white tent with a flag and ships on the water. Man in the centre wears a tall top hat and carries a cricket bat. A Scorer sits to his left.
The Victorian XI, 1859.
In May of that year, Tom Wills (seated, far left), William Hammersley (standing, third from left), J. B. Thompson (seated, second from left) and Thomas H. Smith (not pictured) met at the Parade Hotel, run by Jerry Bryant (standing, second from right), where they wrote the first laws of Australian football.
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