Objectnummer
TN.2008.156
Titel
Cricket in the Artillery Ground, Finsbury
Datum
1743 - 1743
Vervaardiger
artist of the original image this painting was taken from
Materiaal
Omvang
84 x 124 cm
image: 62 x 101.5 cm
Beschrijving
Cricket match in progress with batsman in a red cap the central figure. Holding a curved bat above the waist. Two stump wicket and scorer wearing a tricorner hat and red tail coat.
This painting is a copy of a panel painted by Francis Hayman and his assistants to decorate the supper boxes at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. Each painting formed the back of one supper box, an ornate wooden shelter with a view over the Gardens, where fashionable dinners could see and be seen. The panels, which took their style from light-hearted decorative French engravings of the 1730’s, were one of the great attractions of the fashionable venue.
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