File:Cricket (BM 1862,1011.615).jpg
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[edit]Cricket ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
After: Francis Hayman
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Title |
Cricket |
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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 |
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Depicted people | Portrait of: William Hogarth | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1743 date QS:P571,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1862,1011.615 |
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 4,322 px |
Image height | 3,497 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:57, 26 January 2009 |
File change date and time | 13:59, 26 January 2009 |
Date metadata was last modified | 13:59, 26 January 2009 |