Description: Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith Playing Bowls 1906 Antique Print A print from an disbound antique book dated 1906, the reverse side has an unrelated picture. Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 9.125" x 6.25" or 23cm x 15.5cm, actual page size including border approx 11.25" x 8.75". This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. The date given of 1906 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. Please note: That while every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Descriptive text from separate pages at the back which cannot be supplied (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)PLAYING AT BOWLS IN RAYENSCOURT PARK, HAMMERSMITH, LONDON. Innumerable references to bowling greens and bowl playing, and incidents connected therewith, occur in our public and private records of the last three or four centuries. It was in playing this game on Plymouth Hoe that Drake and his companions were engaged when the news was delivered to them that the Spanish Armada had been sighted off the Cornish coast. In recent years there has been a revival of bowling in town and country, and greens, resembling the pretty one in our picture, are laid out in several of our London parks, where players delight to congregate on a summer's evening. The game has often been referred to as "an old man's game" ; but it is by no means exclusively so, for it affords abundant scope for the strength, vigour, and mental qualities of youth.
Price: 5.99 GBP
Location: DEREHAM
End Time: 2024-11-28T23:06:07.000Z
Shipping Cost: 17.47 GBP
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Item Specifics
Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Size: Small
Region of Origin: United Kingdom
Artist: Cassell & Co
Production Technique: Lithograph
Framing: Unframed
Style: Realism
Item Height: Image approx 6.25 inches
Item Width: Image approx 9.125 inches
Material: Paper
Theme: Cities & Towns, History, Social History, Leisure
Time Period Produced: 1900-1924
Type: Print
Features: Bookplate
Image Orientation: Landscape
Subject: Cityscapes, Landscape, London
Culture: n/a
Item Length: n/a
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Year of Production: 1906
Source: Disbound 1906 Antique Book
Page size including border: Approx 11.25 inches x 8.75 inches
