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HENNAH, T.H. (photographer). England's Twelve Champion Cricketers, photographed on board ship at Liverpool Sep 7, 1859. Brighton: W.H. Mason and London: J. Wisden, 2 October 1859. Carbon print (219 x 280mm) in original mount with lithographic inscription. (Mount laid down and with slight tears at margins, small adhesive tape mark at right-hand margin.)
A CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST ENGLAND TEAM TO TOUR OVERSEAS on the deck of the ship that took them to North America; FINE EXAMPLE, unfaded and with caption fully preserved. The publisher, W.H. Mason, dedicates it to 'The Cricketers of England and America. This group of England's Twelve Champion Cricketers. Photographed on the morning of their departure for America.' The players, the cricketing giants of the mid-19th century, are listed as 'Carpenter, Caffyn, Lockyer, Wisden, Stephenson, G. Parr, Grundy, Caesar, Hayward, Jackson, Diver, John Lillywhite.' 'Fred' Lillyhite, the manager, graphically described the extraordinary discomfort of the ten day crossing in the lurching Nova Scotian. 'Owing to the novelty of the situation, the groaning of some, the splash and thump of the waves against the sides of the ship, the howling of the wind, the flapping of the sails, and the incessant tramp of feet upon deck, sleep was quite out of the question ....' (The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States, 1860, p. 6).
A CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST ENGLAND TEAM TO TOUR OVERSEAS on the deck of the ship that took them to North America; FINE EXAMPLE, unfaded and with caption fully preserved. The publisher, W.H. Mason, dedicates it to 'The Cricketers of England and America. This group of England's Twelve Champion Cricketers. Photographed on the morning of their departure for America.' The players, the cricketing giants of the mid-19th century, are listed as 'Carpenter, Caffyn, Lockyer, Wisden, Stephenson, G. Parr, Grundy, Caesar, Hayward, Jackson, Diver, John Lillywhite.' 'Fred' Lillyhite, the manager, graphically described the extraordinary discomfort of the ten day crossing in the lurching Nova Scotian. 'Owing to the novelty of the situation, the groaning of some, the splash and thump of the waves against the sides of the ship, the howling of the wind, the flapping of the sails, and the incessant tramp of feet upon deck, sleep was quite out of the question ....' (The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States, 1860, p. 6).