Two Boxers
Artist: Unknown
On display
Thomas Cribb, boxing champion of England in the early 1800s, and Thomas Molineaux, a black American boxer, fought each other on 28th September 1811. The fight went to eleven rounds. Cribb won, leaving Molineaux with a broken jaw.
Details
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Two Boxers
- Date
- About 1815
- Medium
- Earthenware, Staffordshire Pottery, England
- Dimensions
- Both H: 22 x W: 11.5cm
- Reference
- CVCSC:0088.1-2.F
- Collection
- Folk Art