Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The Cricketer’s Nightmare’. Fred William Leist. Published by Lawrence & Jellicoe Ltd, Covent Garden. Excellent collection of a set of six colour limited edition chromolithographs featuring Leist’s distinctive and very imaginative watercolour paintings demonstrating the fears and worries of those who play cricket taken to a horrific extreme which were painted in 1909. The titles are ‘The Batsman, ‘Long field dropped it’, ‘How’s That’, ‘The Wicketkeeper’, ‘;Silly Point’ and ‘Run Out’. Each has the original printed titles in white lettering, as issued, to lower border with ‘The Cricketer’s Nightmare’ above and below it the title of the chromolithograph. These images appeared as a series of six but he produced nine drawing and watercolours in total on cricket. Six were watercolours and the other three mixed-media drawing, all on the same theme. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 13”x16.5”. Some loss of text surface in the title of ‘The Wicket Keeper, minor wrinkling, odd fault to mount edge otherwise in good/very good condition. These rarely seen chromolithographs were published in limited numbers and its rare to have the opportunity to buy the full set of six