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

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024

‘Our football centre forward (no cricketer) headed an overthrow and saved the match’. Original pen and ink drawing of a cricket match in progress with crowd, scoreboard and church to background, by artist Lancelot Speed, circa 1920, signed by artist to lower left margin with title. Mounted. Overall 19.5”x14”. Also signed to verso with address. Good condition
Lancelot Speed 1860-1931) was a coastal painter and a British illustrator of books in the Victorian era, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature. He is probably most well known for his illustrations for Andrew Lang’s fairy story books. Speed had no formal art training, but became an illustrator working primarily in black and white

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