Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 458
Estimate: £180/250
‘Sketches at Lord’s’. Large original lithograph sheet comprising four coloured lithographs of ‘Mr James Henry Dark, Proprietor of Lord’s Cricket Ground. Sketches at Lord’s No. 1, ‘The Umpire’ William Caldercourt. Sketches at Lord’s No. 2, ‘Hillyer. Born at Leybourne, Kent’. Sketches at Lords No. 3 and ‘Martingell. Born at Nutfield, Surrey 1818’. Sketches at Lords No. 4. Published by John Corbet Anderson and Frederick Lillywhite on 1st March 1852 and printed by John C. Anderson. The lithograph mounted, framed and glazed and measures approximately 18”x24” overall. Minor stain to sheet otherwise in good+ condition. Rare to see four of the ‘Small Series’ portraits in their original state of four to a sheet