Dr WG Grace, English cricketer, playing for London County Cricket Club Maude Adams Half-length portrait of Raphael Meldola

Half-length portrait of Raphael Meldola dressed in red and grey academic robes over a dress white shirt and tie with gold studs and a black waistcoat showing a watch-chain

written and engraved by Paul Lacroix

Cooper (1621-1683) was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II

his uniform on the floor

1587 (1803)

Dr WG Grace, English cricketer, playing for London County Cricket Club Maude Adams Half-length portrait of Raphael MeldolaDr WG Grace, English cricketer, playing for London County Cricket Club, c1899. Regarded as possibly the greatest cricketer of all time, WG Grace (1848 1915) played first class cricket for 44 seasons from 1865 until 1908, representing Gloucestershire, London County Cricket Club, the MCC and England. A print from The Book of Cricket, a Gallery of Famous Players, edited by CB Fry, George Newnes Ltd, London, c1899.