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

‘The Batsman! Portrait of Fuller Pilch. Dedicated to the lovers of the noble game by N. Felix’. Drawn from the life & on stone by G.F. Watts. Full-length portrait of Pilch in batting stance wearing a top hat. Believed to be a hand coloured print, c.1900, possibly silver gelatin, taken from the lithograph by Watts originally published by S. Knights, Change Alley, and printed by M. & N. Hanhart. Lith Printers, 64 Charlotte Street c.1840. The print measures approx. 9”x13”, nicely mounted, framed and glazed in contemporary oak frame, overall 15.5”x19” with hand-printed title to lower mount border, ‘Fuller Pilch. Born at Horningtoft [Norfolk], 17th March, 1804. Died at Canterbury, 1st May, 1870’. Presentation plaque/ label to verso, ‘Presented by J.B.T. Hales, 1908’. Staining to one corner of the mount, otherwise in good condition.