Rural sports, or, A cricket match extraordinary [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [not before 10 October 1811]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.
Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. October 10th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 811.10.10.05.1+.
Two lines of text below title: On Wednesday October 3rd, 1811, a singular cricket match took place at Balls Pond, Newington. The players on both sides were 22 women, 11 Hampshire against 11 Surrey. ...
Plate numbered "96" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2. - Abstract:
- "The scene is a sloping field. The batswomen are running hard, while one of the field leaps to attempt a high catch; the wicket-keeper crouches behind the wicket, hands on knees. The players have petticoats kilted above the knee, bare heads, necks, and arms; they wear flat slippers, mostly 'en cothurne'. All the fielders look or run towards the ball; one has fallen with great display of leg; another, running headlong, trips over a dog. Eleven are playing, including those batting. Two girls sit together on the ground, one cutting notches on a stick to record the runs. Others stand near, one with a young man's arm round her waist. Spectators stand round the field. In the middle distance is a marquee with a flag: 'Jolly Cricketers'. Here, fashionably dressed men are entertaining the players; a very fat woman drains a bowl of punch, another sits on a man's knee. A girl descends from a donkey. Behind is a fashionable tandem. The scene is rural except for a smoking lime-kiln."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Cricket match extraordinary
- Topics:
- Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1811.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1811.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 75
W87
807 v.2
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2 - Orbis Record:
- 12853746
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr11504
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 11790
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 214 - OID:
- 16192515
- PID:
- digcoll:4046389
