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Painting, oil painting, Cricket Match at Edenside,
Carlisle, Cumberland, by Samuel Bough,, Manchester, England,
about 1844.
Cricket Match at Edenside, Carlisle, about 1844 by Sam
Bough. A cricket match on a blustery day with the main body
of spectators gathered on the far side of the pitch to right
of composition and a small group to left of foreground.
Beyond the River Eden, which crosses centre of composition,
rises the city of Carlisle. Beyond the city walls the castle
is visible to left. The work was commissioned for Mr Howe
who lived at Stanwix, Carlisle. The match is said to be
between Carlisle and Newcastle with Mr Howe umpiring at the
far wicket. The work was later owned by Sir Benjamin Scott
the Mayor of Carlisle.
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