Hayman Collection

Cricket as Played in the Artillery Ground, London, 1785, (1947). Creator: Unknown
Cricket as Played in the Artillery Ground, London, 1785, (1947). A game of cricket being played at Finsbury (now in north London)

Cricket Match in Mary-Le-Bone Fields, 1748, (1947). Creator: Charles Grignion
Cricket Match in Mary-Le-Bone Fields, 1748, (1947). Men playing cricket at Marylebone Fields, (now part of the City of Westminster, London). This is the earliest known depiction of a cricket match

The Fortune Teller on Casting the Coffee Grounds, from an Original Design at Vaux-hall Gardens, 1748-60

View of the Fleet Ditch with bathers, City of London, 1750. Here strip, my Children, here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro thick and thin. From Dunciad Book II

Playing the game at quadrille, c1745
Playing the game at quadrille ; interior scene showing a group of men and woman playing a game of cards, taken from an original painting from Vauxhall Gardens, c1745

The Humorous Diversion of the Country Play at Blindmans Buff, Vauxhall Gardens, London, c1745
The Humorous Diversion of the Country Play at Blindmans Buff, Vauxhall Gardens, Lambeth, London, c1745; showing five figures playing with a blindfolded young man

The Exercise of See Saw, Vauxhall Gardens, Lambeth, London, c1745; showing a young man and woman on a see-saw. As the woman loses her balance she is thrown into the arms of another man standing

Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford, K. G. in the Studio of Francis Hayman, R. A
Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford, K.G. in the Studio of Francis Hayman, R.A. c1748-1750, (1904). From National Portrait Gallery, London. From Social England, Volume V, edited by H.D

Building Houses with Cards, 1743. Artist: Truchy
Building Houses with Cards, 1743. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London)

Quadrille, le Quadrille, 1743. Artist: Truchy
Quadrille, le Quadrille, 1743. Quadrille was the name of a dance and also of a card game. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

Battledore and Shuttlecock, 1743. Artist: Nathaniel Parr
Battledore and Shuttlecock. 1743. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London)

Frontispiece to Tobias Smolletts Roderick Random, 1748. Creator: Charles Grignion
Frontispiece to Tobias Smolletts Roderick Random, 1748

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