Stories of Cricket's Finest Painting

Kent v Lancashire 1906 tells the story of a remarkable painting, commissioned at the height of cricket''s golden age and at the apogee of Britain''s colonial power. The man whose idea it was, the fourth Lord Harris, chairman of Kent County Cricket Club, was no aesthete; but in asking Albert Chevallier Tayler, a cricket-loving painter, to paint a scene from Kent''s triumphant season, showing Colin ...