Object number
TN.2009.1668
Title
The Parsees, 1886
Date
1886-05-24 - 1886-05-25
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Late Hennah & Kent
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ht x w: 38 x 43.5 cm
Description
Framed and mounted, sepia, group photograph. Fifteen cricketers dressed in striped uniforms and two men in street clothes or suit. Posed in front of an ornate, iron fence and greenhouse or pavilion with palms. Names and title below. ‘The Parsees, 1886, played at Sheffield Park May 24, 25.’
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While the Australian Aboriginal cricketers had been treated with curiosity, the high-caste Parsees who made the first tours to Britain by Indian cricketers were treated more as equals in British society, even playing one match against a team captained by Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen Victoria. The Parsees played at Sheffield Park in 1886.
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