| Antique Print Cricket Sport Art - Sporting Print Wonderful antique reproduction of a photograph of a British Cricket star of the day. From a rare British Cricket Publication. Beautiful period illustration. This is a wonderful period image of William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915), who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket a popular spectator sport, and developed most of the techniques of modern batting.
"Of W G Grace it may truly be said, none but himself can be his parallel. As an all-round Cricketer he has been without a rival since he first appeared as a boy of sixteen in first-class cricket in 1864. His 334 for M.C.C. V. Kent at Canterbury, in 1876, is the best individual score in a first-class Match. Three times during his career he has performed the rare feat of making two separate hundreds in a first-class match. Though he is just completing his forty-seventh year, has still few, if any superiors as a batsman. In first-class matches alone he has made nineteen scores of a hundred in his thirty years of cricket." (c1895)
Beautiful & rare period image with facsimile signature.
Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co. 32,33 & 38, Preston Street, Brighton. (Wonderful photo of the Surrey Cricket Team, 1894 on reverse - M. Read, Richardson, Ayres, Smith, Wood, Lockwood, K J Key (captain), Brockwell, W W Read, Hayward, Abel, Street) |
