19th-Century Hand-Coloured Lithograph, Keeping The Wicket Against All England

19th-Century Hand-Coloured Lithograph, Keeping The Wicket Against All EnglandThis charming early 19th century hand coloured lithograph depicts a female cricketer dressed in an outfit befitting the fashions of the 1830s. This exceedingly rare print features an elegant lady attired in a shin high dress with voluminous gigot sleeves, top hat and laced boots. With bat in hand, she guards the wicket during a match against All England. Shes possibly playing for Ireland. During the 1830s, women tended to wear the same clothes for

When he produced this piece

Note how the triangle seems fixed and permanent

Each line precisely engraved into a smooth copper plate

A charming late 19th-century landscape painting depicting a view across fields to a lake and distant church

drift above several vessels with sails billowing

In more recent times

She appears to be giving him instructions so perhaps she’s the boy’s mother

29” x 21” / 74cm x 53cm Year of creation 1906

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

An attractive impressionistic French landscape painting depicting a view across a field towards distant trees

a dark mood wrapped in vivid apocalyptic conditions

Our reference: BRV1298