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![[Master Taylor] [Trap Ball.](jpegs/68188.jpg)
[Master Taylor] [Trap Ball. From an original Picture in the Collection of George Watson Esq.r.]
[Painted by H. Thomson Esq.r R.A.Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.]
[London, Published Jan.y 2. 1809. by the Engraver 92 Norton Street, Marylebone.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14").
A portrait of a boy, master Taylor, crouched ready to strike a ball with a bat. A pencil note suggests he is the son of G.W. Taylor. Trap Ball is also known in Yorkshire as 'knurr and spell'. It is a competition to see who can hit a knurr (wooden ball) the furthest, once it is thown into the air by the spell (a levered wooden trap, shown on the ground here).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68188] £480.00
[Painted by H. Thomson Esq.r R.A.Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.]
[London, Published Jan.y 2. 1809. by the Engraver 92 Norton Street, Marylebone.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14").
A portrait of a boy, master Taylor, crouched ready to strike a ball with a bat. A pencil note suggests he is the son of G.W. Taylor. Trap Ball is also known in Yorkshire as 'knurr and spell'. It is a competition to see who can hit a knurr (wooden ball) the furthest, once it is thown into the air by the spell (a levered wooden trap, shown on the ground here).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68188] £480.00