This is a rare original framed & glazed Print, the frame has signs of wear, but rather than replace it am selling in original condition, I have listed as collection only as I cannot guarantee the glass with a courier but please feel free to arrange your own courier
W B Wollen's 'The Rugby Match' Large Framed
Print: Famous and controversial, with the original hanging in the RFU
President's Suite at Twickenham, the painting by William Barnes Wollen R A of a
Yorkshire v Lancashire (11-3) game at Park Avenue, Bradford Nov 25, 1893. M, F
& G, 35" x 24" overall, very desirable
The Battle
of the Roses from Wikipedia
The Battle of the Roses also known
as The Rugby Match or The Roses Match is an 1895 portrait by artist William
Barnes Wollen. It is based on the rugby union match between the representative
sides of Yorkshire and Lancashire played at Fallowfield, Manchester on 24
November 1894. It depicts the Yorkshire team in the all-white strip attacking while the Lancashire team in the
hooped red and white jerseys and black shorts try to prevent a pass being made.
The action on the pitch takes place in front of a packed stadium.
History[edit]
The painting was commissioned by Newcastle-on-Tyne based partnership of
Mawson, Swan & Morgan and it was completed by Wollen in 1895 and was
exhibited at the 1896 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (catalogue number 673).[1] Many of the players sat specially for Wollen while other players
were based on previous portraits of them.[2] It was one of the pieces selected to appear in Cassell's Royal Academy Pictures 1896
edition.[3] Subsequent to the Royal Academy exhibition the portrait is known
to have been on display in West Yorkshire and Newcastle in 1896–1898 but the
subsequent whereabouts of the portrait are unknown until 1957 when members of
the Yorkshire Rugby Football Union found the portrait in a second-hand shop in Newcastle. They bought
the picture for £25 and it was displayed in the Otley R.U.F.C. clubhouse until the 1960s when it was moved
to its current location in the West stand at Twickenham Stadium.[4]