Two photographs of elaborate pen and ink cartoons, the first celebrating the Calcutta v. Bombay cricket, lawn tennis and racquets match of October 1884; the second titled 'CRICKET | 1885 | MATCHES WEEK', with several caricatures of named players.

Both photographs 23.5 x 18.5 cm, mounted on the sides of a leaf of discoloured paper removed from an album. Both in good condition, one with light fading to the extremities. Both pictures are elaborately-planned and well-executed. The first, filling the whole of the photographic paper, is bordered by foliage, with two Indian maidens flying at the head, and a group of hats and pith helmets at the foot, with two waiters (one with champagne in a cooler labelled 'Culla Club', captioned 'Bombay Effervesces'. Beneath the caricatures a blanching individual captioned 'Calcutta begins to look a little anxious about thhe result'. The illustration includes caricatures of several cricketers, including Gell, Newnham, Hensman, G. Fagan, Mackintosh, Nixon, and H. Fagan. Also 'The Eminent Bonnaud at the Wickets' (an umpire in a broad-brimmed hat saying 'Hold your bat straight'), and 'Sartorius v Bonnaud' at billiards. The second image, within a border of 19.5 x 13 cm, has a smiling sun beside the phrase 'How are you old night lights', in a turbulent sky marked 'Moonsoon'. At the centre an Indian figure pulling a roller, beneath a cartoon of several (unnamed) cricketers at play. On the left of the picture a tall, thin, bespectacled figure in pith-helmet, holding a ball and bat, atop a steam train marked 'N R G'. This figure is captioned 'Quite a new picture this season! It is the portrait of a very enthusiastic cricketer | Lots of go & "puff puff" - Puff puffed an eleven to Calcutta.' At the foot a turbulent confused dream-like scene with many figures, explained by a long note on blackboard headed 'Hunting of the Snark' and apparently based on the mood of Tenniel's illustrations to Carroll's poem. Four-line parody of the poem at foot, ending 'For the Snark was a Bhuj-m you see'. Central note beginning 'Two very powerful elements at work to make a successful programme - Sun & Gas!!'