Sport, cricket, 1897, News of the World, antique print, Lord Hawkes, George Lohmann, photogravure

Antique Photogravures depicting English Captain Lord Hawkes and G.A. Lohmann from photographs by E. Hawkins & Co.

Published by News of the World, London 1897.

Image sizes approximately 180 x 255mm (7 1/6 x 6 1/6 inch)

Condition = Excellent

Each image has a short cricketing & character synopsis beneath, with photographed hand written dedication/signature:

Lord Hawkes, photographed wearing club cap, dark tie, white shirt & pants, a neat mustache, with right arm resting on a plinth holding the handle of his bat - "Eton, Cambridge University and Yorkshire, such is Lord Hawkes' pedigree in Cricket...punishing batsman, which he never lost...is a leader of men in cricket matters, and a keen upholder of the best traditions of the game...tours he has personally conducted in Australia, America and India...(signed), Yours very Truly Hawkes"

In 1903 "the enigmatic Lord Hawkes" Brought the Marylebone Cricket Team to the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand). They scheduled their Australian schedule from New Zealand, but were most surprised  to hear Adelaide Oval was unavailable...read on

George Lohmann, in a studio photograph wearing a dark cricket cap, white shirt and slacks, sporting a blonde mustache, holding a cricket ball in his right hand, his left thumb resting in his left pocket, shirt cuffs casually rolled back, in 1897 - "the Surrey Cricketer...constitute a really brilliant record of an all-round cricket...9 years first-class matches..5,702 runs, took 1,397 wickets, made 244 catches, 85 from his own bowling. Though a fine free hitter and a splendid field anywhere, it is as a bowler that he has been best known…(signed), Yours very Truly Geo A. Lohmann"

The new technology of photogravuring revolutionized the printing industry. For the first time an photographic image could be printed onto paper. The Newspaper, News of the World, chose the sport of cricket to showcase this new printing technique first used by the Americans to illustrate a sport close to their hearts, photographs of the American yacht designs by  Nathaniel L.Stebbins, 1889.