Signed etching, 1936.
Copley revisited his 1910 lithograph of the same subject matter reworking it as an etching with virtually identical composition.
'But this image, generally regarded as the first
modern British print,...an extraordinary action scene with two diagonally placed figures, blurred and distorted in their movement. There is little sense of them being part of a larger game. It is an image
more about atmosphere than narrative, a ghostly depiction of characters engaged not so much in sport, but some elemental battle, reminiscent of William Blake.' David Whiting, Goldmark 2022