Attributed to H. J. Aveling, active 1839–1842, BritishFormerly unknown artist, nineteenth century
Title:
First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836
Date:
exhibited 1839
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 x 32 inches (55.9 x 81.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.270
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
field | cricket | cricket (game) | men | women | soldiers | players | white (color) | grass | buildings | parasol | cityscape
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Richmond upon Thames (borough) | Hampton Court palace | Surrey | Greater London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 113, 369, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 40-41, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 322-323, no. 353, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Jane Johnson, Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists 1824-1893, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, England, 1993, p. 14, N6767 J64 1993 YCBAJ. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 64, 134, no. 158, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)