Object number
TN.2009.64
Title
A Cricket Match, c. 1840
Date
1840 - 1840
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Production notes
questionable authenticity ?
Material
Size
Unframed Ht x W: 43.5 x 51.7 cm
Description
Scene of a cricket match in progress, in a dark brown oval border. Man carrying a tray and drinks in the foreground with a small white dog at his feet. Tall fir tree on left. Flags all around the border, Union flag in foreground, St. Andrew’s cross and cross of St. George on pennant on right. Two tents in middle ground, on either side. Church with slender spire in background. Exhibition labels on reverse.
Display caption
A reproduction of this picture appeared in ‘Country Life’ of April 12, 1941, with a letter from Messers. Leggatt Bros inviting the help of readers in identifying the scene represented. One reader replied that it would appear to be the old Horsham Ground – “ an odd view taken at an angle , easily done before the railway existed”. Others, however, who know Horsham intimately say that it bears no resemblance to either the old or the present ground.
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