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Life on the Water. The Grand Rowing Match for Mr Kean's Prize Wherry. Red House, Battersea.
[Knight & Lacey London, 1827.]
Engraving with very fine colour. Sheet 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed and edges backed onto album paper. Tear across bottom right corner, repaired with tape.
A satirical print depiciting distressed men rowing frantcially in a match, with the Red House, Battersea in the background..
[Ref: 68420] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
W. de St Croix [facimile signature].
to be had only of Mr Dawe 13, High Street Windsor [n.d., c.1840].
Scarce mezzotint. 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of William de St Croix (1819-1877), a clergyman who played cricket from 1839 to 1842 for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Cambridge Town Club, making 15 known appearances in first-class matches. He organised the restoration of the 'Long Man of Wilmington' hill figure, 1873-4, giving it its modern outline. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67923] £320.00
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