Cricketing Collection (#2)

Cartoon, Out! (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, Out! Gladstone as batsman is bowled out, and Disraeli as wicket keeper is back in the running. A cricketing analogy for the transfer of power in the wake of a General Election. Date: 1866

Cricket Match between the United and All-England Elevens (coloured engraving)
729135 Cricket Match between the United and All-England Elevens (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Cricket in Australia (coloured engraving)
729134 Cricket in Australia (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cricket in Australia: A Team Going Up-Country To Play A Match)

The Maharajah goes a-cricketing
The Maharajah of Patiala having his pads adjusted before going in to bat. Date: 1911

English cricketers in the West Indies
Lord Brackleys team of English cricketers in the West Indies. Date: 1905

Australian cricket team at the Crystal Palace
The Australian cricketing team - notes at the final match at the Crystal Palace. Date: 1880

Nottinghamshire Cricket Team 1898. 1898

Handbill, Grand Match of Cricket Epsom Downs, Surrey
Handbill, Grand Match of Cricket, Epsom Downs, Kent versus Surrey. 1820

The End of the Cricket Season (engraving)
729128 The End of the Cricket Season (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The End of the Cricket Season. Engravings by Swain)

New Cricketing Dresses to Protect all England Against the Present Swift Bowling (engraving)
668364 New Cricketing Dresses to Protect all England Against the Present Swift Bowling (engraving) by Leech, John (1817-64); Private Collection; (add.info)

The Zulus enthusiasm for sport (colour litho)
2777833 The Zulus enthusiasm for sport (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Zulus enthusiasm for sport)

Cricket at Lords - Eton v Harrow (engraving)
729247 Cricket at Lords - Eton v Harrow (engraving) by Hall, Sydney Prior (1842-1922) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cricket at Lords - Eton v Harrow. Hoisting the Victor)

The New Cricket Ground, Manchester (coloured engraving)
729140 The New Cricket Ground, Manchester (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The New Cricket Ground, Manchester. Illustration by unknown artist)

Lords Cricket Ground,s Johns Wood, Match of the Gentlemen and Players (engraving)
608124 Lords Cricket Ground,s Johns Wood, Match of the Gentlemen and Players (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

A Cricket Match at Constantinople (engraving)
729138 A Cricket Match at Constantinople (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Cricket Match at Constantinople. Illustration by Mr Goschen)

The Australian Cricketers (coloured engraving)
729471 The Australian Cricketers (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Australian Cricketers. From the Illustrated London News, 26 August 1882)

TOY CRICKETING CAT
A toy cricketing cat, bat behind him, arms spread wide to catch the cricket ball! Date: 1930s

TOURING TEAMS 1884
Our Cricketing Guests The Philadelphia and Australian touring teams. Date: 1884

Cartoon, cricketing lion and kangaroo
Cartoon, cricketing British Lion and Australian Kangaroo. The lion says: Well, you don t mind a good licking, so long as you get the gate money, do you? 1884

Hand-drawn and painted postcard featuring a cricketing Duck
Rather unusual hand-drawn and painted French Birthday Greetings postcard featuring a cricketing Duck, dispatching the ball out of the ground! circa 1920s

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Out
Run-It-Out card game - Out. mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Stumped
Run-It-Out card game - Stumped - Hows That? mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Run Out
Run-It-Out card game - Run Out - Hows That? mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Caught
Run-It-Out card game - Caught. mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Caught at the Wicket
Run-It-Out card game - Caught at the Wicket - Hows That? mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - card back, red
Run-It-Out card game - card back, red. mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - card back, blue
Run-It-Out card game - card back, blue. mid-20th century

Music cover, Sport Galop bys Vizentini (piano), with yachting, fox hunting and cricketing scenes. circa late 19th century

Two boys in their cricketing gear at the side of a cricket pitch

Schoolboy suggest a game of ping pong to W G Grace
" I should like to play you at ping pong" !! A young schoolboy suggests a sensible choice of sporting contest when faced with the colossus of the cricketing world, Dr W G Grace

Tommy Marshall of the Stockton Cricket Club, 1876
Engraving of Tommy Marshall, former player and coach of the Stockton Cricket Club, 1876. Although his age was unknown when this image was published, it was said he played cricket in the time of Mynn

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