A History of Cricket in Four Figures (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Crayon on Board
Size: 8" x 11" (200mm x 270mm)
Date: 1975
Code: GreenCricket

This is the unique original Crayon by Harry Green.

A montage of famous figures from the early days of cricket.

Top left Thomas Lord who built the ground that still bares his name which is the third such to do so. He played in the last years of the 18th Century.

Top Right Old Father Time the weather vane at Lords.

Lower left William Lillywight also known as The Nonpareil; the greatest bowler of the "roundarm" era he raised Sussex into a county capable of beating all England teams.

Lower Right, probably the most famous English cricketer of all time, Dr. W. G. Grace who played until he was 66 years of age.

• Artist Biography
  Harry Green (born 1920; UK)
  A little-known artist, Harry Green contributed extensively to Look and Learn in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating a variety of subjects ranging from historical buildings to football. However, it was as a transport illustrator that he really made his mark in the 1980 with the series "Britain's Railway Wonders". Green also contributed illustrations to Speed & Power in the 1970s.
  
  His book illustrations include Architecture (1969), Architecture: The Great Art of Building (1969), Discovery of Australia (1969) and Discovery of South America (1970), some of which were jointly illustrated by Gwen Green who was also a prolific children's educational book illustrator.