Before the Match: Lord's Cricket Ground on a Gentlemen versus Players day
Dickinson and Foster
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1895
Materials
Paper, glass and wood
Measurements
818 x 1317 mm
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 881812
Summary
Photogravure published 1st June 1895 by Messrs. Dickinson and Foster of by Messrs. Dickinson and Foster of Lord's on a Gentlemen versus Players day, showing 7 cricketers and 4 gentlemen, one in a bath chair, in front the pavilion where gentlemen are seated. A flag flying from flagpole to left. Together with a key of figures, see LAN.D.53. See also LAN.D.41 and LAN.D.42. The gilt frame has the monogram MCC in black on shield.
Provenance
Acquired on transfer of the house to the National Trust. These engravings and keys were mentioned in a 1969 leaflet for visitors to Lanhydrock.
Marks and inscriptions
(signed bottom left on mount in different hand) Dickinson
Makers and roles
Dickinson and Foster , artist Dickinson Brothers, artist