FDA-E.3216-2022
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.3216-2022
Object type
Identification
Title
Kent v. Lancashire Cricket Match at Canterbury 1906
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Black and white print depicting a cricket match viewed from behind the stumps, with a cricket pavilion, spectators and trees in the background; and a small portrait of a man below the main image, lower left
Comments
This is a print of a painting by Albert Chevallier-Taylor completed in 1907. The painting was commissioned, at the suggestion of Lord Harris, by the Kent County Cricket Club to celebrate Kent's first county championship win in 1906
Description
Dimensions
height (frame): 870mm
width (frame): 1285mm
width (frame): 1285mm
Inscription
Lettered below image with the names of the players, including: 'C.H.B. MARSHAM, ESQ. (CAPTAIN); signed lower left: 'Harris'; and lower right: 'A Chevallier-Taylor'; brass plaque on frame lettered: 'PRESENTED TO UPPER CLUB. / BY LORD HARRIS, / IN COMMEMORATION OF THE GLORIOUS VICTORY OF / ETON OVER HARROW, JULY 9, 1910'
Material
ink
paper
paper
Production
Person
Chevallier-Tayler, Albert, 1862 - 1925 (Source artist)
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Lord Harris (1851-1932); by whom presented to Eton College in 1910
