Newcastle Road, Sunderland · 1895
The Painted Match
Thomas M. M. Hemy’s Sunderland v. Aston Villa (1895) leads — the game’s great Victorian canvas, the sport admitted to the gallery while still in its boyhood.
The pieces in The Painted Match
Thomas M. M. Hemy · 1895
Sunderland v. Aston Villa
The great Victorian football canvas — the match in oil, mid-attack, the crowd packed to the touchline.
Somebody always sees the future first and paints it.