Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 387
Estimate: £50/80
‘Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury 1906’. Albert Chevallier Tayler. Large colour print of the famous painting of Colin Blythe bowling to Tyldesley with the attacking fielders around the bat. Printed title to lower border ‘The Kent Eleven. Champions 1906’, with the printed names of each player who are featured in the painting. Framed and glazed. Overall 42” x 28”. Good/very good condition
The original painting was commissioned by Lord Harris to celebrate Kent’s first County Championship title win in 1906. The painting was auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2006 and sold for £600,000. This was a record price for a cricket painting