Boxing match for 200 guineas betwixt Dutch Sam and Medley fought 31 May 1810 on Moulsey Hurst near Hampton. [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 5 June 1810]eng"Two pugilists, stripped to the waist, face each other with raised fists, each with his second behind him. The bottle-holders sit on the ground (left and right) just inside the ring, which is formed by the front row of seated spectators. A dense (masculine) crowd seated in tiers surrounds the ring, backed by coaches on which stand women as well as men. Below the title: 'The Concourse of people exceeded any thing we have ever wit-nessed. The Spectators were computed at Ten Thousand. At one O'Clock the Champions entered the ring, and Sam had for his second Harry Lee, whilst Joe Ward officiated for Medley, after a severe and bloody contest of 49 Rounds Victory was decided in favour of Sam'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate.Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. June 5, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1."Price one shilling coloured."Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 189-90.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.4 x 32.9 cm.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number.Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.