File:Cricket (BM 1862,1011.615).jpg

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Cricket   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Francis Hayman

Print made by: Antoine Benoist
Published by: John Bowles
Published by: Thomas Bowles II
Title
Cricket
Description
English: 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
Depicted people Portrait of: William Hogarth
Date 1743
date QS:P571,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 293 millimetres
Width: 360 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1862,1011.615
Notes The painting was one of a set of 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)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1862-1011-615
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