ANDERSON, (John Corbet).

HILLYER. An original small tinted lithograph by John Corbet Anderson, from a drawing by the same artist, depicting the cricketer W. Hillyer.
Published in London, 1st March, 1852.
Size: 13cms x 18cms. Margins extra. Stain to upper edge, otherwise good condition. Preserved in cut mount.
No. 3 in the Sketches at Lord's series. Hillyer played for Kent between 1835 and 1853. In the mid nineteenth century Anderson produced a series of well-observed lithograph portraits of contemporary cricketers. These have always enjoyed a wide popularity and have become collectors' items. Down & West, Sketches at Lord's, no. 12c.
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