The Country Cricket Match · At the 1884 Whitechapel Exhibition

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Title: The Country Cricket Match
Actual Title: A Country Cricket Match
Artist: John Reed
Artist Full Name: John Robertson Reid (1851-1926)
Date (Painted or Exhibited): 1878
Type: oil on canvas
Size (HxW mm): 1067 × 1816
First Exhibited Location: Royal Academy
Current Location: Tate, London, Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894: N01557.
Lent By: Henry Tate, Esq.
Catalog Number: 121
Catalog Page: 18
Catalog Description: They don't seem to be teetotallers and yet they are in no mischief. Any excuse is enough to make us enjoy ourselves, when we have good company and a fine day.
Alt-Text: A lively outdoor scene shows people in 19th-century clothing gathered around a long wooden table, eating and chatting. Others stand nearby or walk on a grassy field, with tents and buildings in the background under a bright sky.