Hawkins, E. & Co

Late Victorian cricketers and their teams fill the photographs of E. Hawkins & Co., the Brighton firm associated with sp...

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Late Victorian cricketers and their teams fill the photographs of E. Hawkins & Co., the Brighton firm associated with sporting portraiture. The collection is strongest in illustrations from the 1890s, with individual batsmen alongside formal groups of county and university sides: Surrey, Sussex and Somerset among the counties, with Oxford and Cambridge teams, each player identified by name and role. The images appeared in the illustrated sporting press and in publications such as Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds, and their clothing, equipment and poses record the game before the First World War.

Late Victorian cricketers and their teams fill the photographs of E. Hawkins & Co., the Brighton firm associated with sporting portraiture. The collection is strongest in illustrations from the 1890s, with individual batsmen alongside formal groups of county and university sides: Surrey, Sussex and Somerset among the counties, with Oxford and Cambridge teams, each player identified by name and role. The images appeared in the illustrated sporting press and in publications such as Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds, and their clothing, equipment and poses record the game before the First World War.

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