'Cricket on Parade Ground, St. James's Barracks Trinidad' 20 April 1837'
Object Type
Artwork/Painting/Watercolour
Date Used
20 Apr 1837
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Object Detail
Brief Description
Pencil and watercolour sketch featuring and number of military men in uniform playing cricket on an open field. Titled: "Cricket on Parade Ground St James Bcks Trinidad/from the sketch book of C. M. Wilson/Ensign/86th Regiment" The back drop features several large hills. A single building can be seen near a fence to the left of the picture. Handwritten in ink 'Jim Daly' mid-left beside artwork. Verso exhibition label.
Measurements
0 - Whole: H: 26.5 W: 30.5 D: 1mm (H: 1 1/16 W: 1 3/16 D: 1/16")
Date Used
20 Apr 1837
Location
In storage
Registration No
M6592
Credit Line
Kindly donated to the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum by Mr Anthony Baer.
I am excited at having discovered this watercolour on your website, as I am researching the collection of which it was once a part. Several other pictures that once belonged to it were sold individually in 2017 by an art dealer in Trinidad. He had acquired them sometime before from a private dealer/collector in London. Thumbnail images of these pictures can be found at http://legacy.101artgallery.com/2017-PP-page4.html, from item number 149 onwards and over onto the following web page. Several of these pictures depict scenes in and around St James’s barracks, where the cricket match depicted in your watercolour is being played. The ‘Jim Daly’ depicted in your watercolour is also depicted in the one of the billiards room in the same barracks, where he is on the left-hand side sitting on the window ledge. In addition to these 19 pictures, I am aware of nine others that once went with them but have yet to discover what happened to them. The pictures once belonged to Tom Cambridge, a resident of Tobago, who died around 1980, after which his collection was broken up. I am trying to find out what happened to them afterwards. Could you please let me when you acquired your watercolour of the cricket match and is there any more information you can give me about it – e.g. where did your donor acquire it from? I notice that there is a link on the watercolour’s webpage to the Parker Gallery in London. Is this where the picture was purchased from? I am also trying to establish exactly who the artist was. The pencil inscription attributing your watercolour to Ensign C. M. Wilson of the 86th regiment is useful, but I’ve yet to establish his presence in Trinidad in March-May 1837, when most of these pictures were painted, and later in April 1838. Do you know who made the pencilled inscription?
- Randolph Jones
Posted on 28-07-2020 20:27:32