FDA-D.207-2010

Object number

FDA-D.207-2010

Object type

drawing

Title

Cricket on College Field
Cricket Match on College Field

Title Type

Formal name
Previous title

Comments

A sketch for this composition, with dashes of colour on buff paper (CL216) also exists. This final composition is one of William's best known works, showing several games in progress at once on the Playing Fields. The informality and season is emphasised by the cherry seller. Though the work is not dated stylistically it belongs to the mid 1830s when he was finding new subjects in the school's games.

Other number

CL 158

Content (object)

sports & games

Content (place)

Eton College

Dimensions

height (sight size): 685mm
width (sight size): 940mm
height (frame): 769mm
width (frame): 1054mm
depth (frame): 42mm

Materials & techniques note

pencil and watercolour heightened with white

Physical description

Modern gilt frame

Person

Evans, William, 1798 - 1877 (Artist)

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Miss Nancy Radcliffe Platt; by whom presented to Eton College in memory of the donor's brother, John Roodhurst Platt (Captain of the Oppidans in 1909), in 1975

Exhibited: 'Art Treasures of Eton', Christie's, London; 'William Evans of Eton', Brewhouse Gallery, Eton College, 1998, catalogue no.35; 'A Genius for Watercolour', Christie’s, London, 2003, catalogue no. 16; 'John Player Art of Cricket', London, York and Nottingham, July-November 1983

References

• McConnell, J. (ed.), Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.15, no.3, illustrated in colour)
• Connor, L.M., William Evans of Eton 1798-1877, exhibition catalogue, Brewhouse, Eton 1998 (p.52, illustrated in colour)