article_snippet: And now an amazing 150-year-old photograph has emerged of boys at the private school playing cricket - one of the earliest images ever taken of the sport.
article_snippet: an amazing 150-year-old photograph.
article_snippet: An 1860s photograph of young men playing cricket at Eton has been discovered and is to be sold at auction.
article_snippet: An 1860s photograph of young men playing cricket at Eton is thought to be the second oldest image of the sport ever taken .
article_snippet: An 1860s photograph of young men playing cricket at Eton will be sold at auction by Dominic Winters Auctioneers in Cirencester .
article_snippet: Dating from around 1862, The photograph was taken just five years after the first ever image depicting the sport.
article_snippet: It is to be sold by Dominic Winters Auctioneers in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and is expected to fetch at least £500.
article_snippet: Auctioneer and Senior Valuer Chris Albury said: 'This early, and previously unknown, cricket photograph in this album probably dates from circa 1862, some five years after The photograph.'
article_snippet: The first ever photo of cricket was taken by Roger Fenton in 1857, a founding member of the Royal Photographic Society and famous for his photographs of the Crimean War.
article_snippet: his first captured the sport in during a match between the Royal Artillery and the Hunsdonbury Cricket Club at the Honourable Artillery Ground in Islington, London, 25 July 1857.
article_snippet: Above, members of the first XI before a match against Household Brigade in 1925 .
highlights_snippet: Taken at Eton College, it is believed to be the earliest ever photograph depicting cricket being played at a school .
  
highlights_snippet: Auctioneers expect the earliest ever photograph depicting will fetch at least £500 when the earliest ever photograph depicting goes under the hammer in Gloucestershire .