Numero oggetto
M.1979.TN.117
Titolo
New Cricketing Dress
Data
1854
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38 x 47.5 cm
Descrizione
Monochrome print with caption 'New cricketing dresses, to protect all England against the present swift bowling'. Two cricketers standing at the wicket wearing exaggerated protective clothing as do the two fielders in the background.
Ten years before overarm bowling was legalised, cartoonist John Leech was able to imagine cricketers of the future in protective clothing. In this case the danger was caused not so much by the bowlers as by the Lord’s pitch, widely regarded as the most dangerous in England.
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