Eton Wall Game (after George Wolliscroft Rhead)
Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy (North Shields 1852 - St Helens, Isle of Wight 1937)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1887
Materials
Paper & Card
Measurements
460 x 610 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638326
Summary
Print, etching, Eton Wall Game, (after George Wolliscroft Rhead) by Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy (North Shields 1852 - St Helens, Isle of Wight 1937). unframed, of a scrummage against a high wall in a ball-game played by two teams of boys and observed by top-hatted referees and many onlookers; collegiate buildings in the background. Mounted; signed in the plate and in pencil on the margin.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed (pencil) in the margin ‘G.Woolscroft Rhead’ and in the plate similar plus ‘Tom M Henry/ 1887’
Makers and roles
Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy (North Shields 1852 - St Helens, Isle of Wight 1937), engraver (printmaker) George Wolliscroft Rhead (1854-1920), artist