print
- Museum number
- 1862,1011.615
- Title
- Object: Cricket
- Description
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A group playing cricket, the batsman by the wicket at left ready to hit the ball, a young boy sitting in the right foreground taking score; after an untraced painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens (Allen CL 214). 1743
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1743
- Dimensions
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Height: 293 millimetres
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Width: 360 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting was one of a set ot twelve sporting pictures designed to decorate supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens. The wicket keeper is traditionally thought to be a portrait of Hogarth (See Goldman 'Sporting Life' No. 73)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Apr-May, Plymouth, Plymouth Museum and AG, 'Sporting Life'
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Acquisition notes
- 1862,1011.412 to 670 are listed as having come from the sale of J J A Fillinham at Puttick & Simpson on 6-8 August 1862. They comprised lot numbers 332, 339, 345, 402, 433, 569, 570, 571, 573, 577 and 578.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,1011.615
