"The Cricket Boy" - image of Lewis Cage
Object Type
Artwork/Print/Mezzotint
Framed
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Object Detail
Brief Description
Colour mezzotint of a boy - Lewis Cage - wearing 18th-century dress holding a curved cricket bat near a red cricket ball and a makeshift wicket of three stumps, standing in a grassy, treed field. The boy has dark curly hair, wears a green suit consisting of a long, open, gold-buttoned vest and breeches, with a white shirt and loose white stockings, and gold-buckled shoes. The boy stands with one hand upon his hip, the other grasping the top of the large black-handled cricket bat, on which has been inscribed the artist's name Francis Cotes RA/1768 at the end. Inscription below image l.l. in lead pencil reads 'L. BUSIÉRE'. Embossed in a small oval below image at lower left is the acronym 'ZPDC'. Printed centre above the image 'Copyright 1sty September 1929, Published by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd., 182 Sloane Street, London, SW1, Printed in England'. Printed centre below the image 'Copyright 1929 in the United States of America by Henry Graves & Co., Ltd., 182 Sloane Street, London, SW1.'. Print is housed in a cream window mount, at the inner edge of which is drawn in watercolour a series of six border lines, and shaded in between in gold and watercolour. Black and gold wooden frame. Verso inscription in ink on piece of paper stuck to the back of the work reads, in part, "COLOURED ARTIST'S PROOF / TITLE: THE CRICKET BOY / ENGRAVED BY L. BUSIERE / AFTER F. COTES", and the name and address of the fine arts dealers VICARS BROTHERS, with the number given for the work: 43490, and the reference number DB 363 / BO; also a white label uper edge with number "42".
Measurements
1: H: 765 W: 578 D: 19mm (H: 30 1/8 W: 22 3/4 D: 3/4")
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Location
In storage
Registration No
M6228
Credit Line
Kindly donated to the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum by Mr Anthony Baer.
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