{"id":312,"date":"2022-11-04T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/?page_id=312"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:03:39","slug":"paintings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cricket Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1743_%E2%80%93_Cricket_as_played_at_the_Artillery_Ground_%E2%80%93_Benoist_after_Hayman_1735\" >1743 &#8211; Cricket as played at the Artillery Ground &#8211; Benoist, after Hayman (1735)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1740_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Mary-le-bone_Fields_%E2%80%93_Hayman\" >1740 &#8211; A Cricket Match at Mary-le-bone Fields &#8211; Hayman<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1740_%E2%80%93_A_View_from_the_Green_in_Richmond_%E2%80%93_Heckel\" >1740 &#8211; A View from the Green in Richmond &#8211; Heckel<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1743_%E2%80%93_Landscape_with_Cricket_Match_in_Progress_%E2%80%93_Paul_Sandby\" >1743 &#8211; Landscape with Cricket Match in Progress &#8211; Paul Sandby<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1743_%E2%80%93_An_Exact_Representation_of_the_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_after_an_engraving_by_Louis-Phillipe_Boitard\" >1743 &#8211; An Exact Representation of the Game of Cricket &#8211; after an engraving by Louis-Phillipe Boitard<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1744_%E2%80%93_Handkerchief_of_the_Laws_of_Cricket\" >1744 &#8211; Handkerchief of the Laws of Cricket<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1750_%E2%80%93_Cricket_in_Battersea_Fields\" >1750 &#8211; Cricket in Battersea Fields<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1750_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Sevenoaks\" >1750 (?) &#8211; Cricket at Sevenoaks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1750_%E2%80%93_Cricket_Match\" >1750 (?) &#8211; Cricket Match<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1755_%E2%80%93_Knowle_Park\" >1755 &#8211; Knowle Park<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#c1760_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Kenfield_Hall_near_Petham_Canterbury_in_the_18th_Century_%E2%80%93_George_Morland\" >c1760? &#8211; A Cricket Match at Kenfield Hall, near Petham, Canterbury in the 18th Century &#8211; George Morland<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1761_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Brading_Isle_of_Wight\" >1761 &#8211; Cricket at Brading, Isle of Wight<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#c1770_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_on_Cotmandene_Dorking_%E2%80%93_James_Canter\" >c1770 &#8211; A Cricket Match on Cotmandene, Dorking &#8211; James Canter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1770_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Wincheap_near_Canterbury\" >1770 &#8211; Cricket at Wincheap, near Canterbury<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1773_%E2%80%93_Kent_v_Sussex_Sevenoaks_Vine\" >1773 &#8211; Kent v Sussex, Sevenoaks Vine<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1773_%E2%80%93_Title_page_illustration_from_Surrey_Triumphant\" >1773 &#8211; Title page illustration from Surrey Triumphant<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1774_%E2%80%93_Surrey_v_Hambledon\" >1774 &#8211; Surrey v Hambledon<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1774_%E2%80%93_Kent_v_Hampshire_at_Bishopstone_%E2%80%93_Belanger\" >1774 &#8211; Kent v Hampshire at Bishopstone &#8211; Belanger<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1779_%E2%80%93_The_Countess_of_Derby_and_friends_playing_cricket_%E2%80%93_TH\" >1779 &#8211; The Countess of Derby and friends playing cricket &#8211; T.H.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1784_%E2%80%93_Harwich_with_a_game_of_cricket_in_progress_%E2%80%93_John_Nixon\" >1784 &#8211; Harwich with a game of cricket in progress &#8211; John Nixon<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1785_%E2%80%93_Handkerchief_of_the_Laws_of_Cricket_with_a_game_at_White_Conduit_Fields\" >1785 &#8211; Handkerchief of the Laws of Cricket, with a game at White Conduit Fields<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-22\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1780s_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_1\" >1780s &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (1)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-23\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1784_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_2_%E2%80%93_Robert_Dighton\" >1784 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (2) &#8211; Robert Dighton<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-24\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1784_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_3_%E2%80%93_engraving\" >1784 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (3) &#8211; engraving<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-25\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1790_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_4_%E2%80%93_painting\" >1790 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (4) &#8211; painting<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1790_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_5_%E2%80%93_Thomas_Rowlinson\" >1790 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (5) &#8211; Thomas Rowlinson<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-27\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1790_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Moulsey_Hurst_%E2%80%93_James_Ward\" >1790 &#8211; Cricket at Moulsey Hurst &#8211; James Ward<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-28\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1790_%E2%80%93_A_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_Anon\" >1790 &#8211; A Game of Cricket &#8211; Anon<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-29\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1790_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Chertsey_in_the_18th_Century_%E2%80%93_George_Morland\" >1790 &#8211; A Cricket Match at Chertsey in the 18th Century &#8211; George Morland<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-30\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1790s_%E2%80%93_A_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_after_Hayman_1740\" >1790s &#8211; A Game of Cricket &#8211; after Hayman, 1740<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-31\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1793_%E2%80%93_Cricket_Match_At_Lords_Ground_In_Dorset_Square\" >1793 &#8211; Cricket Match At Lord&#8217;s Ground In Dorset Square<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1793_%E2%80%93_Engraving_of_Dartmouth_College_USA_%E2%80%93_Josiah_Dunham\" >1793 &#8211; Engraving of Dartmouth College, USA &#8211; Josiah Dunham<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-33\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1795_%E2%80%93_Wells_Cathedral_with_a_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_JMW_Turner\" >1795 &#8211; Wells Cathedral with a Game of Cricket &#8211; JMW Turner<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-34\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1796_%E2%80%93_Cricket-Match_at_Montpelier_Gardens_Walworth_%E2%80%93_H_Alken\" >1796 &#8211; Cricket-Match at Montpelier Gardens, Walworth &#8211; H. Alken<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-35\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1798_%E2%80%93_Illustration_of_the_game_attached_to_the_laws\" >1798 &#8211; Illustration of the game attached to the laws<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1799_%E2%80%93_Grand_Cricket_Match_at_Swaffham_Norfolk_%E2%80%93_Artist_G_Shepheard_engraving_by_J_Dadley\" >1799 &#8211; Grand Cricket Match at Swaffham, Norfolk &#8211; Artist G. Shepheard, engraving by J. Dadley.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-37\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#c1800_%E2%80%93_Cricket_Match_at_Maidstone_All_Saints_Church_in_the_Distance\" >c1800 &#8211; Cricket Match at Maidstone, All Saints Church in the Distance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1800_%E2%80%93_A_cricket_match_on_Bansted_Downs_Surrey_%E2%80%93_Belanger\" >1800 &#8211; A&nbsp;cricket&nbsp;match on Bansted Downs, Surrey &#8211; Belanger<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-39\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1815_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Lewes_based_on_1801_picture\" >1815 &#8211; Cricket at Lewes (based on 1801 picture)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1803_%E2%80%93_Cricket_%E2%80%93_WH_Pyne\" >1803 &#8211; Cricket &#8211; WH Pyne<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1743_%E2%80%93_Cricket_as_played_at_the_Artillery_Ground_%E2%80%93_Benoist_after_Hayman_1735\"><\/span>1743 &#8211; Cricket as played at the Artillery Ground &#8211; Benoist, after Hayman (1735)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:51%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-336\" style=\"width:452px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benoist-1-1536x1243.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:49%\">\n<p>An engraving by C. Benoist, after an Oil painting by Francis Hayman, RA, based on the earliest depiction of a cricket match that we know of; obviously, this is a very important artwork and one that is much copied. The original by Hayman is now lost but used to hang in a supper-box at Vauxhall Gardens (opened 1735).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting has come to be known as <em>Cricket at the Artillery Ground<\/em>, but this is a misnomer. The picture was originally described as<em> A Game of Cricket as played in the Artillery Ground<\/em>, the Ground of the Honourable Artillery Company being the most famous of its day, and the misunderstanding arose from that. In fact, the Artillery Ground was walled in, so this picture is obviously somewhere else. Note, this is a single-wicket match; there is only one wicket and one batsman. Also, the hockey-stick style bat is being used<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>The verse under the picture reads:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">To exercise their Limbs and try their Art<br>Forth to the verdant Fields and Swathes depart<br>The buxom Air and cheerful Sport unite<br>To make Hulse* useless by their rough Delight<br><br>Britons, whom nature has for War design'd<br>In the soft charms of Ease no Joy can find:<br>Averse to wast in Rest th' inviting Day<br>Toil forms their Game and Labour is their Play.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>* I have no idea what this word means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/artillery-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"389\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/artillery-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2765\" style=\"width:443px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/artillery-1.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/artillery-1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">One of many third-generation copies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1740_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Mary-le-bone_Fields_%E2%80%93_Hayman\"><\/span>1740 &#8211; A Cricket Match at Mary-le-bone Fields &#8211; Hayman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hayman-Cricket-in-Marylebone-Fields-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" src=\"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hayman-Cricket-in-Marylebone-Fields-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hayman-Cricket-in-Marylebone-Fields-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hayman-Cricket-in-Marylebone-Fields-1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>A hugely important painting by Francis Hayman, the original survives in the MCC collection. Oil on canvas 88 x 108 cm. Mary-le-bone Fields is the site of Regent&#8217;s Park, though whether the picture shows that location is not certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/my-library-of-early-cricket\/#The_Art_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_Robin_Simon_and_Alistair_Smart_1983\">Simon and Smart<\/a> refer to this picture&#8217;s &#8220;high quality and subtle handling&#8221; and say it is &#8220;a painting of high quality which has been surprisingly neglected in the literature and to which we now give an overdue place of honour&#8221;<sup data-fn=\"156db004-579e-4ba7-82b1-7b1c8ce3379c\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#156db004-579e-4ba7-82b1-7b1c8ce3379c\" id=\"156db004-579e-4ba7-82b1-7b1c8ce3379c-link\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrangement of figures in this painting is reproduced many times in the other paintings on this page. Further consideration of the image is given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/kit-and-equipment\/#Clothing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1740_%E2%80%93_A_View_from_the_Green_in_Richmond_%E2%80%93_Heckel\"><\/span>1740 &#8211; A View from the Green in Richmond &#8211; Heckel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Richmond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Richmond.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Richmond.jpg 708w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Richmond-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Coloured line engraving of Richmond, Surrey, view of the Green, taken from the terrace in the Royal Gardens. A game of cricket is in progress on the green. Published by Robert Sayer, Fleet Street c.1752.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1743_%E2%80%93_Landscape_with_Cricket_Match_in_Progress_%E2%80%93_Paul_Sandby\"><\/span>1743 &#8211; Landscape with Cricket Match in Progress &#8211; Paul Sandby<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1743-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1743-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1743-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1743-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1743.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibly in Yorkshire. It has a distinct wintry appearance, arising from the frosty-looking grass &#8211; no doubt, misleading. But very atmospheric.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1750-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1750-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1750-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1750-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Landscape-with-cricket-match-1750.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copy by John Laporte in 1750<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1743_%E2%80%93_An_Exact_Representation_of_the_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_after_an_engraving_by_Louis-Phillipe_Boitard\"><\/span>1743 &#8211; An Exact Representation of the Game of Cricket &#8211; after an engraving by Louis-Phillipe Boitard<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coates-1024x827.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coates-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coates-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coates-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coates.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibly by WR Coates. The arrangement of the fielders echoes Hyman, note especially double-teapot man in the covers, but four leg-side fielders rather than three. The scorers are on the far side of the field but still positioned well within the field of play, this seems to have been a common feature of cricket of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting is in Tate Britain. See article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/great-works\/great-works-an-exact-representation-of-the-game-of-cricket-circa-1760-louis-philippe-boitard-1972541.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/great-works\/great-works-an-exact-representation-of-the-game-of-cricket-circa-1760-louis-philippe-boitard-1972541.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:22% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ticket.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3977 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ticket.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ticket-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>This ticket is for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/matches-to-remember\/#England_v_Kent_1744\">England v Kent (1744)<\/a> at the Artillery ground and is obviously derived from Boitard. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1744_%E2%80%93_Handkerchief_of_the_Laws_of_Cricket\"><\/span>1744 &#8211; Handkerchief of the Laws of Cricket<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Laws-Hankerchief-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Laws-Hankerchief-1-1024x913.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Laws-Hankerchief-1-1024x913.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Laws-Hankerchief-1-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Laws-Hankerchief-1-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Laws-Hankerchief-1.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture is a straightforward copy of Hayman; the importance of this object is that, around the edges, are the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/rules\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"614\">laws of cricket<\/a> we have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1750_%E2%80%93_Cricket_in_Battersea_Fields\"><\/span>1750 &#8211; Cricket in Battersea Fields<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Battersea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Battersea-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Battersea-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Battersea-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Battersea-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Battersea.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View of London in the distance with many steeples and churches evident. Again, the figures are clearly derived from Hayman, three leg side fielders plus double-teapot-man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1750_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Sevenoaks\"><\/span>1750 (?) &#8211; Cricket at Sevenoaks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:53%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks-1024x631.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks-1024x631.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks-1536x947.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks-2048x1262.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sevenoaks-768x473.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:47%\">\n<p>I know very little about this rather basic engraving, it appears as an illustration in EV Lucas&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/my-library-of-early-cricket\/#The_Hambledon_Cricket_Chronicle_%E2%80%93_FS_Ashley-Cooper_1923\"><em>The Hambledon Chronicles<\/em>.<\/a> The size of the players in relation to the size of the ground is rather strange<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building on the boundary looks like the workhouse behind the White Conduit Ground (see below, 1790). From the layout and attitudes of the players, though, it seems to be derived from Hayman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1750_%E2%80%93_Cricket_Match\"><\/span>1750 (?) &#8211; Cricket Match<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Match.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Match.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Match.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Match-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems like a poor copy of Hayman (1740), with one or two features added and many missed out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1755_%E2%80%93_Knowle_Park\"><\/span>1755 &#8211; Knowle Park<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Knowle-Park-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Knowle-Park-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Knowle-Park-1.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Knowle-Park-1-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lords and Gentlemen of Surrey and Kent playing cricket at Knowle Park, Kent, 1775. Artist not known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"c1760_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Kenfield_Hall_near_Petham_Canterbury_in_the_18th_Century_%E2%80%93_George_Morland\"><\/span>c1760? &#8211; A Cricket Match at Kenfield Hall, near Petham, Canterbury in the 18th Century &#8211; George Morland<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kenfield-Hall-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kenfield-Hall-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kenfield-Hall-2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kenfield-Hall-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>The location was confirmed by cricket commentator Brian Johnston, once a resident of Kenfield. Spectators stand in the garden behind a white fence. A banner with \u2018Welcome\u2019 written on it hangs from the wall behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricket match in the foreground gives way to the artist\u2019s fascination with the nuances of light and the contrasting weather conditions, the cricket pitch is half in sunlight, half in shade, created by the dark clouds and silhouetted oak tree, right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1761_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Brading_Isle_of_Wight\"><\/span>1761 &#8211; Cricket at Brading, Isle of Wight<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Brading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Brading.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Brading.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Brading-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricketers are wearing red, gold or blue breeches. Tents with the Union flag on the left and St George\u2019s flag on the right. The arrangement of figures is similar to Hayman (1740); this painting may be a nineteenth-century pastiche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"c1770_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_on_Cotmandene_Dorking_%E2%80%93_James_Canter\"><\/span>c1770 &#8211; A Cricket Match on Cotmandene, Dorking &#8211; James Canter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking2-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking2-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>View of the town of Cotmandene, near Dorking, with a cricket match in progress in the centre of the painting, merging into the landscape. On the left side is Deepdene, at the time the home of James Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Despite its inconvenient slope, Cotmandene continued to be the main venue for cricket in Dorking well into the 19th century, until the establishment of a new ground at Pixham in 1878. The last recorded match at Cotmandene took place in July 1899, between Dorking and an MCC side featuring the novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:44%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dorking3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1256\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:56%\">\n<p>Detail of the cricket<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1770_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Wincheap_near_Canterbury\"><\/span>1770 &#8211; Cricket at Wincheap, near Canterbury<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Wincheap-Canterbury-1770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Wincheap-Canterbury-1770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Wincheap-Canterbury-1770.jpg 777w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Wincheap-Canterbury-1770-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Wincheap-Canterbury-1770-768x391.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Players running between stumps. Canterbury Cathedral and town in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the current Kent Ground, known as St Lawrence, although this is also in the Wincheap area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1773_%E2%80%93_Kent_v_Sussex_Sevenoaks_Vine\"><\/span>1773 &#8211; Kent v Sussex, Sevenoaks Vine<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sevenoaks.jpg 1858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I love about this painting is that there is genuine action. The bowling has to be from the left of the picture, with a largely offside field. The leg-side fielder, at what we would now call cow-corner, is poised to take a catch; you can just see the ball close to his hands as he lines himself up. The batsman is rooted to his crease as he awaits his fate. Strangely, though, the bowler seems to have disappeared &#8211; he must be the chap behind the stumps who seems to be waiting for a return throw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1773_%E2%80%93_Title_page_illustration_from_Surrey_Triumphant\"><\/span>1773 &#8211; Title page illustration from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Surrey-Triumphant.png\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"2682\">Surrey Triumphant<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Surrey-Triumphant.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2682\" style=\"width:440px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Surrey-Triumphant.png 320w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Surrey-Triumphant-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple illustration for a famous poem. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1774_%E2%80%93_Surrey_v_Hambledon\"><\/span>1774 &#8211; Surrey v Hambledon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:54%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Surrey-v-Hambkedon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Surrey-v-Hambkedon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Surrey-v-Hambkedon.jpg 782w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Surrey-v-Hambkedon-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Surrey-v-Hambkedon-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:46%\">\n<p>A cricket match is in progress on an uneven field. Players wearing breaches and holding curved bats. Oak trees and a village in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The layout of the fielders seems to be the painter&#8217;s own, possibly indicating this was an authentic view. Bowling is from the right, we get a good view of the bowler&#8217;s follow-through. Strangely, the bowlers-end umpire seems to be standing at a kind of short extra-cover; the LBW law came in in 1774, around the time of this painting, but was not widely used for many years thereafter &#8211; so, the umpire would see little need to line himself up with the wicket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibly at Guildford Bason, Merrow Down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1774_%E2%80%93_Kent_v_Hampshire_at_Bishopstone_%E2%80%93_Belanger\"><\/span>1774 &#8211; Kent v Hampshire at Bishopstone &#8211; Belanger<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belanger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belanger-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belanger-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belanger-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belanger-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belanger.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kent v Hampshire, the umpire is supposedly the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-early-cricket-hall-of-fame\/#Edward_%E2%80%98Lumpy_Stevens_1735_%E2%80%93_1819\">Lumpy Stevens<\/a>. I have, however, read of no further suggestion that he ever acted as umpire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/my-library-of-early-cricket\/#From_Commons_to_Lords_A_Chronology_of_Cricket_1700%E2%80%931799_%E2%80%93_Ian_Maun_2009-2022\">Maun<\/a>, this painting is a Victorian pastiche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1779_%E2%80%93_The_Countess_of_Derby_and_friends_playing_cricket_%E2%80%93_TH\"><\/span>1779 &#8211; The Countess of Derby and friends playing cricket &#8211; T.H.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Women-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"305\" src=\"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Women-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Women-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Women-1-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only pictures of Eighteenth Century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/womens-cricket\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"608\">Women playing cricket<\/a> but in aristocratic rather than the more usual rural setting. The atmosphere is more of casual play rather than a match &#8211; most of the ladies appear to be spectators rather than participants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1784_%E2%80%93_Harwich_with_a_game_of_cricket_in_progress_%E2%80%93_John_Nixon\"><\/span>1784 &#8211; Harwich with a game of cricket in progress &#8211; John Nixon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich-2048x1148.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Harwich-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harwich is an Essex port, and tall ships can be seen in the background. That cricket should be shown as an incidental activity in Essex is another indication of the spread and popularity of the game of cricket<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1785_%E2%80%93_Handkerchief_of_the_Laws_of_Cricket_with_a_game_at_White_Conduit_Fields\"><\/span>1785 &#8211; Handkerchief of the Laws of Cricket, with a game at White Conduit Fields<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WC-Hank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WC-Hank.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WC-Hank-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figures from the 1744 handkerchief of the laws, themselves from Hayman&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/paintings\/#1740_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Mary-le-bone_Fields_%E2%80%93_Hayman\">A Cricket Match at White Conduit Fields<\/a><\/em>, but now superimposed on the background of the White Conduit buildings. In the corners are four patrons of the game &#8211; Colonel Tarleton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/patrons\/#Sir_Horatio_Mann_2nd_Baronet_1744_%E2%80%93_1814\">Sir Horace Mann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/patrons\/#Frederick_Prince_of_Wales_1707_%E2%80%93_1751\">Frederick, Prince of Wales<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/patrons\/#John_Sackville_3rd_Duke_of_Dorset_1745_%E2%80%93_1799\">Third Duke of Dorset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1780s_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_1\"><\/span>1780s &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (1)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture-of-cricket2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture-of-cricket2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture-of-cricket2.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture-of-cricket2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of five pictures of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/?page_id=442\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"331\">White Conduit Fields Ground<\/a>, this one a south-to-north view. The large building in the background is the Islington Workhouse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1784_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_2_%E2%80%93_Robert_Dighton\"><\/span>1784 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (2) &#8211; Robert Dighton<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-Dighton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-Dighton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-Dighton.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-Dighton-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-Dighton-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This view of White Conduit Field is from the North to the South &#8211; the City of London skyline is prominent. An unusual example of a painting with several identifiable topographic details beyond the field itself. <a href=\"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/white-conduit-ground\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"442\">White Conduit House and Grounds<\/a> were an important 18th-century leisure facility for the less well-off classes. The site of the central building is now on Penton Street, Islington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1784_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_3_%E2%80%93_engraving\"><\/span>1784 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (3) &#8211; engraving<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WC-fields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WC-fields.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WC-fields.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WC-fields-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WC-fields-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a view from South to North, away from the White Conduit building. The large building in the background is the Islington Workhouse. The low three-stump wicket, however, was never a feature of the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1790_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_4_%E2%80%93_painting\"><\/span>1790 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (4) &#8211; painting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-1.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/White-Conduit-Fields-1-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A view, very likely, based on the engraving of 1784. Note the similarity of the presentation of background features such as the cottage (left), the tent and the workhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top Hats are very prominent &#8211; these became fashionable in the 1780s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1790_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_White_Conduit_Fields_5_%E2%80%93_Thomas_Rowlinson\"><\/span>1790 &#8211; Cricket at White Conduit Fields (5) &#8211; Thomas Rowlinson<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson-1024x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson-1536x852.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson-2048x1136.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WCF-Rowlinson-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A view, very likely, based to some extent on the engraving of 1784 by Robert Dighton, although there are several differences, for example, bowling is from the opposite end. However, the White Conduit buildings are fairly clear in the background. This picture, though, has the element of gentle caricature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1790_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Moulsey_Hurst_%E2%80%93_James_Ward\"><\/span>1790 &#8211; Cricket at Moulsey Hurst &#8211; James Ward<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MH.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MH.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MH-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\">\n<p>A match at Moulsey Hurst on the south bank of the Thames. The view across the river includes the church tower, the small island, <em>Garrick&#8217;s Ait<\/em>, and Garrick\u2019s Temple to Shakespeare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MH.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1795\" style=\"width:260px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MH.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MH-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MH-768x375.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>James Ward RA (23 October 1769 \u2013 17 November 1859) was an English painter, his fame largely rests on his work as a painter of animals and as an engraver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1790_%E2%80%93_A_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_Anon\"><\/span>1790 &#8211; A Game of Cricket &#8211; Anon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hambledon-Cut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hambledon-Cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hambledon-Cut.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hambledon-Cut-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hambledon-Cut-768x400.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A game of cricket, 1790. Sometimes associated with Hambledon, but, in truth, location unknown, certainly the steeple in the background is not visible at Broadhalfpenny Down, and neither is the cottage to the left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The posture and clothing of many of the players, the artistic technique, the colouring, even the dimensions, are strikingly similar to the Moseley Hurst painting above. For example, look at the batters, the field settings, the players&#8217; hats and the use of shade in the foreground. Another feature is that the bowling is from the left of the picture, in most paintings inspired by Harman, the bowling is from the right; this has the effect of placing most of the fielders (the packed off side syndrome) facing the audience instead of us seeing their backs. It seems to me that this could be the work of James Ward as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1790_%E2%80%93_A_Cricket_Match_at_Chertsey_in_the_18th_Century_%E2%80%93_George_Morland\"><\/span>1790 &#8211; A Cricket Match at Chertsey in the 18th Century &#8211; George Morland<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Morland.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4196 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Morland.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Morland-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>A blatant pastiche of the picture above, or perhaps the other way around. This picture, though, gives a location: &#8216;View from the Cricketers Inn, Chertsey&#8217;. Chertsey, though, played most matches at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/other-important-grounds\/#Laleham_Burway_Surrey\">Laleham Burway <\/a>Ground, out of town, nowhere near an Inn. But they stopped playing there in 1787, so perhaps this is their new ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Morland (1763-1804) was a prolific artist, whose work was frequently reproduced in engravings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1790s_%E2%80%93_A_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_after_Hayman_1740\"><\/span>1790s &#8211; A Game of Cricket &#8211; after Hayman, 1740<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Regents-Park-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" src=\"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Regents-Park-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Regents-Park-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Regents-Park-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Regents-Park-1-768x662.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Game of Cricket, supposedly at The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent&#8217;s Park. Hayman&#8217;s 1740 arrangement of the cricket field is again been recycled, fifty years after it was first made. For me, this painting seems to have a more rustic air, perhaps because the background field is more prominent and a five-bar gate has been added, albeit that the third stump is in evidence. The players of both sides are uniformly attired in white breeches and short yellow jackets, an emerging fashion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1793_%E2%80%93_Cricket_Match_At_Lords_Ground_In_Dorset_Square\"><\/span>1793 &#8211; Cricket Match At Lord&#8217;s Ground In Dorset Square<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"492\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dorset-Square.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dorset-Square.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dorset-Square-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1,000 guinea contest at the Dorset Square Lord&#8217;s Ground between the Earl of Danley&#8217;s team and the Earl of Winchilsea&#8217;s. Published in The Sporting Magazine, 1 July 1793. Notice the fence, the Gentlemen cricketers moved from White Conduit Fields as they wanted more privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-stump wicket is unlikely. Also, the hill in the background doesn&#8217;t look like London &#8211; perhaps that is just artistic license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1793_%E2%80%93_Engraving_of_Dartmouth_College_USA_%E2%80%93_Josiah_Dunham\"><\/span>1793 &#8211; Engraving of Dartmouth College, USA &#8211; Josiah Dunham<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dartmouth-college-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dartmouth-college-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dartmouth-college-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dartmouth-college-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dartmouth-college-1-768x477.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another surprise &#8211; cricket in the USA. From Massachusetts Magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1795_%E2%80%93_Wells_Cathedral_with_a_Game_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_JMW_Turner\"><\/span>1795 &#8211; Wells Cathedral with a Game of Cricket &#8211; JMW Turner<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Turner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Turner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Turner.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Turner-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right &#8211; Turner. Not bad either. What a backdrop for a game!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1796_%E2%80%93_Cricket-Match_at_Montpelier_Gardens_Walworth_%E2%80%93_H_Alken\"><\/span>1796 &#8211; Cricket-Match at Montpelier Gardens, Walworth &#8211; H. Alken<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Clipboard01-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Clipboard01-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Clipboard01-6.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Clipboard01-6-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Played by eleven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/matches-to-remember\/#One_Leg_v_One_Arm_1796\">Greenwich Pensioners with one leg against eleven with one arm<\/a>, in front of what seems a large crowd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1798_%E2%80%93_Illustration_of_the_game_attached_to_the_laws\"><\/span>1798 &#8211; Illustration of the game attached to the laws<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Laws-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Laws-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Laws-3.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Laws-3-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This image, clearly derived from Hayman, is used despite it now being archaic, especially the shapes of the bat. Three stumps are in use, though and top hats appear as well. A tent has been added where ladies appear to be taking their rest, also a cottage emerges from the trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1799_%E2%80%93_Grand_Cricket_Match_at_Swaffham_Norfolk_%E2%80%93_Artist_G_Shepheard_engraving_by_J_Dadley\"><\/span>1799 &#8211; Grand Cricket Match at Swaffham, Norfolk &#8211; Artist G. Shepheard, engraving by J. Dadley.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Swaffham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"715\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Swaffham.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Swaffham.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Swaffham-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coloured line engraving of a Cricket Match. It was published in 1799, accompanying a scorecard, and ostensibly illustrating a match at Swaffham, Norfolk July 17th 1797, between<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/matches-to-remember\/#Norfolk_v_England_1797\"> XI of All England against 33 of Norfolk<\/a>. Not sure about the hills in the background &#8211; not very Norfolk-like. Incidentally, in their two innings, for 64 dismissals, Norfolk totalled 131, highest individual score being 9. All-England reached 144 in their one innings and so won by an innings and 13 runs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>Regarding the location depicted, in his book about Hambledon, <em>The Glory Days of Cricket<\/em>, Ashley Mote identifies an engraving of this picture as being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/broadhalfpenny-down\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"594\">Broadhalfpenny Down<\/a> and the structure on the far side as being The Lodge, a kind of pavilion for spectators. He says the Lodge was erected at the start of each season and dismantled at the end, and it was also used at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/windmill-down\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"546\">Windmill Down<\/a>, when that became the main ground. Better research, however, shows that it was purely a Windmill Down facility, where it was also known as the Cricket House. Furthermore, it was built of brick with a thatched roof and was never dismantled, until it was finally removed, presumably when the ground ceased to stage cricket matches. A question does arise: could the picture then be of Windmill Down, and just recycled to meet the need for a cricket picture to attach to a scorecard? Certainly, the background is like the Sussex Downs. The identified engraver, J Dadley, was born in 1767, so if the picture is from the early 1790s, Windmill Down, where the last major match was 1795, it would be a possibility. Close inspection, though, indicates a small building on the boundary, just right of centre, and no such building would have been there. Also, the structure looks more like some kind of marquee than a brick building. So Mote&#8217;s ideas are probably without foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"c1800_%E2%80%93_Cricket_Match_at_Maidstone_All_Saints_Church_in_the_Distance\"><\/span>c1800 &#8211; Cricket Match at Maidstone, All Saints Church in the Distance<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4189 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-2048x1304.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Village-match-768x489.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>A very interesting painting, in many ways. For one thing, it shows play from behind the batsmen rather than from mid-wicket as in every other view on this page. A second point is that there are more spectators here than in any other painting, including some in the right foreground getting stuck into the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match could be taking place at an area of parkland known as Oakfield Park. There are presently school cricket fields on part of the site.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1800_%E2%80%93_A_cricket_match_on_Bansted_Downs_Surrey_%E2%80%93_Belanger\"><\/span>1800 &#8211; A&nbsp;cricket&nbsp;match on Bansted Downs, Surrey &#8211; Belanger<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Belanger-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Belanger-2.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Belanger-2-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cricketers playing in an open field, an inn to the left, open landscape in the background. This seems like a very authentic painting to me, composed from life rather than a pastiche of an earlier work. I like the uneven ground, the Inn sign on the boundary, the onlooker leaning against the gate and the clear underarm bowling action. I am a bit perplexed, though, by the large marquee &#8211; perhaps this was a great occasion, not a simple rustic scene, but I hope not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1815_%E2%80%93_Cricket_at_Lewes_based_on_1801_picture\"><\/span>1815 &#8211; Cricket at Lewes (based on 1801 picture)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:56%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fielding-positions2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fielding-positions2-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fielding-positions2-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fielding-positions2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fielding-positions2-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fielding-positions2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:44%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players and caption are copied from an illustration appearing in <em>Rules and Instructions for Playing the Game of Cricket <\/em>by T Boxall, 1801. However this is still a great picture, the background and tents have been added to give local colour. The numbers on the picture and key below are as per the original, my contribution is only aimed at making them clearer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>1. Long stop<br>2. Long slip<br>3. Wicket keeper<br>4. Short slip<\/td><td>5. Umpire<br>6. Hitter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>7. Point<br>8. To cover point <br> and middle wicket<\/td><td>9. Middle wicket<br>10. Hitter<br>11. Scorers<br>12. Leg&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><td>13. Umpire<br>14. Long field off side<br>15. Bowler <br>16. Long field on side<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1803_%E2%80%93_Cricket_%E2%80%93_WH_Pyne\"><\/span>1803 &#8211; Cricket &#8211; WH Pyne<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pyne-1024x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pyne-1024x295.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pyne-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pyne-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pyne-1536x443.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pyne-2048x590.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>To finish this page, a lovely and perceptive image of the rural game, just beyond the time scheme of this website. The portrayals of the bowler and the batter are full of life and intent. This drawing is an extract from Pyne&#8217;s book, Microcosm; strangely, he expresses regret that cricket is replacing traditional rural games such as bowls &#8211; the image of the game he offers seems very appealing to me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"156db004-579e-4ba7-82b1-7b1c8ce3379c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/my-library-of-early-cricket\/#The_Art_of_Cricket_%E2%80%93_Robin_Simon_and_Alistair_Smart_1983\">Simon and Smart<\/a>, page x <a href=\"#156db004-579e-4ba7-82b1-7b1c8ce3379c-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1743 &#8211; Cricket as played at the Artillery Ground &#8211; Benoist, after Hayman (1735) An engraving by C. Benoist, after an Oil painting by Francis Hayman, RA, based on the earliest depiction of a cricket match that we know of; obviously, this is a very important artwork and one that is much copied. 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