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1739 – Youth playing at Cricket – J Cole after Hubert Gravelot (? 1730)
Probably the earliest illustration of cricket we have. One of a group of designs used as a decorative border. Also used on dinner services, jugs etc.
Here the image is reversed and used in the Arms of Shrewsbury
1744 – His House and School – John Stedman
School boys playing cricket in a fenced off yard. School master and artist seated in the foreground. Low wide wicket.
1770 ? Cricket at the Free School, Maidstone, William Jefferys
Maidstone was one of the early centres of cricket and provoked Puritanical outrage in the middle of the Seventeenth Century.
1777 – Children Cricketers Printing Block – J Marshall & Co
Black, carved wood printing block. Depicts four children, one holding a hoop, one tossing a ball, one with a shoulderless cricket bat over his shoulder and one holding a ball and a cricket bat.
1780 – Carmalt School, Putney, James Miller
Camalt School, Putney