Description of a Boxing Match

Thomas Rowlandson

Description of a Boxing Match

London, T. Rowlandson March 1^st 1812

This print a later impression ca. 1825

Etching.

Original hand colouring

370 x 270 mm

£240

A rare Rowlandson showing a boxing match between Ward and Quirk (whose first names have not been established). They fight one another closely surrounded by spectators with a bottleman seated at lower right.

Below the image 9 rows of etched text starting;

Battle between ward and Quirk for 100 Guineas aside –.