A game of trap ball before a church tower

Games at Vauxhall: Playing at cricket, c. 1743

The Game at Cricket as play’d in the Artillary Ground London, c. 1752-1754

The Cricket Players of Europe, c. 1757

Walter Hawkesworth Fawkes, c. 1760

The Cricketers by Benjamin West, 1764

Charles Collyer as a boy, with a cricket bat by Francis Cotes, 1766

Lewis Cage by Francis Cotes, 1768

Boys playing cricket near Putney School by James Miller, c. 1775-1785

Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger, 1778

Cricket match played by the Countess of Derby and other ladies, 1779

Richard Heber by John Singleton Copley, 1782

Cricket played by the Gentlemens Club, Whiteconduit House by Robert Dighton, 1784

The children of Hugh and Sarah Wood of Swanwick, Derbyshire by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1789

A game of cricket, c. 1790-1799

The North West View of Colchester Castle, 1791

Mr Hope of Amsterdam playing cricket with his friends by Jean François (le Romain) Sablet, 1792

William, Mary Ann, and John De la Pole as children by Thomas Beach, 1793

The Red Boy: Portrait of Master McDonough, full-length, in a red jacket and breeches with a black hat, holding a cricket bat, in a wooded landscape by John Opie

Generous Schoolboys (The Collection for a Soldier’s Widow) by William Redmore Bigg

Three children of the Larking family by John Downman

Additional Resources

The Laws of Cricket; Reviſed at the Star and Garter, Pall-mall, February 25, 1774

Early Cricket: Cricket before 1800

A History of Cricket

History of American Cricket: The 1700s

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket’s Early Years