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[The Germantown Cricket Club] [graphic] / Colin Campbell Cooper.
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Creator
Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr., artist.
Contributor
McKim, Mead & White, architect.
Title
[The Germantown Cricket Club] [graphic] / Colin Campbell Cooper.
Publisher
[Philadelphia,]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1892
Date
1892
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 50 x 66 cm. (19.75 x 25.75 in.)
Description
Lively view showing several spectators enjoying a match at the grounds of the cricket club (founded in 1854) at 411 West Manheim Street. Elegantly attired young men and women, walk, sit, and stand along the field and in a grandstand. Attire includes hats, bowlers, bustles, canes and parasols. In the right of the image, a lady converses with a cricket player near a couple conversing with spectators behind the brickwall of the stand. Others watch from a row of carriages near club buildings in the background. Several persons walk along a path bordering the field. Also contains 2 ink pen lithograph vignettes showing the front facade of the clubhouse and the gate to the club. Clubhouse vignette includes a cricket match. The clubhouse was built in 1891 after designs by McKim, Mead & White.
Notes
Artist's signature in ink with date and in pencil in lower right corner.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 91
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1978 p. 53-54.
Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan.
Subject
Germantown Cricket Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cricket -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sports spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Manheim Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 5140.
Associated name
McKim, Mead & White, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Recreation - G [8384.F.2]
Accession number
8384.F.2
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