'Cricket as Played in the Artillery Ground, London, 1785', (1947). A game of cricket being played at Finsbury (now in north London). In the mid-eighteenth century, the Artillery Ground was the home of the London Cricket Club. After a painting of 1743 in the Marylebone Cricket Club Collection. From "British Clubs", by Bernard Darwin. [Collins, London, 1947]

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