Vanity Fair Print - Polo Player

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This original Vanity fair polo print dated 1898 can be viewed and purchased here

Men of the Day 728. Major Michael Rimington.
'He is descended from Edward Longshanks, he is two-and-a-half inches more than six feet, and he was born at Penrith forty years ago. Unusall for a soldier he went to Oxford and took a degree: after rowing in the Keble Eight, playing in its Cricket Eleven an in its football team, jumping hurdles and hunting, and generally behaving athletically. But he did not begin polo till he got to Sandhurst; after which he joined ithe Iniskilling Dragoons in South Africa ..... He is one of our bets polo players and Honorary Secretary of the All-Ireland Polo Club.'

(A full biography is supplied with this print).

Original Spy Cricket Print - "Reggie"

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 Mr. R. H. SPOONER By Spy. 'Reggie'. Educated at Marlborough. Played for Lancashire and England. Also played Rugger for England. Served in the Boer War.

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Original Vanity Fair Print - Oxford Cricket by Spy

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A cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University between 1887 and 1889 and for Middlesex between 1895 and 1898.

Throughout his career Philipson was competing for the wicket-keeper's spot in the English Test side with Gregor MacGregor, which resulted in him playing in only five Test matches for England, which he did on the 1891/2 and 1894/5 tours of Australia. He also toured India with George Vernon in 1889, though this tour did not include any Tests.

Bantham Beach - Bigbury On Sea

A Collection of South Devon Scenes by Frank Hewett.

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Beautiful Edwardian watercolours of Bantham Beach, Bigbury on Sea, West Buckland and Hexdown Quay click here to view:

Frank Hewett fl. 1900 - 1925
Lived in West Buckland, near Bantham in South Devon. He painted many local seascapes and landscapes as well a charcoal portraits of local people. He formed and trained a local rifle volunteer group at the time of the first world war. He was an imposing, bearded man who would regularly be seen sketching on street corners in his familiar cape.

Vanity Fair Cricket Print

Original Vanity Fair print of Cricketer Colin Blythe dated 1910.
'Charlie' by Jehu Junior

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Antique Prints - John Pine - Spanish Armada and the English Fleet off Dover

18th Century original engraving of the Spanish Armada

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The Spanish Armada and English Fleets between Dover and Calais from The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engagements of the English and Spanish Fleets in 1588. The English Fleet preventing the Armada returning to Spanish ports stand off Calais with the Spanish ships to the North in the English Channel.

These engravings were viewed and approved by Lord Charles Howard of Effingham (Lord High Admiral). They depict the scenes of the large scale tapestries displayed in the House of Lords from 1616 until they were lost in the fire of 1834. Drawn by C. Lempriere.

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Condition: Good, hand coloured.

John Pine 1690 - 1756
A line engraver, mainly of book plates. Ran a print shop in St. Martin's Lane London and was a friend of William Hogarth who introduced his portrait in 'Oh the Roast Beef of Old England' as the Friar.