"Bill Richmond, the black pugilist, stands directed to the right, left leg advanced, fists raised. He is stripped to the waist, wearing a spotted handkerchief for belt, with neat breeches, stockings, and tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., Although born into slavery in New York, he lived most his life in England., Leaf 17 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Richmond, Bill, 1763-1829, and Richmond, Bill, 1763-1829.
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers, Boxers (Sports), and British
Design consists of two images with individual titles above. In the upper image "An obliging disposition" a gentleman in a chaise longue is asked by his visitor to cover his debt: "Sir, you will oblige me to pay this bill, if not I must oblige you". On the wall behind them is a print showing a boxer; on floor beside the chaise are a pair of epees, a portfolio, and boxing gloves and In the image below, Manors make the man, a country gentleman with a walking stick addresses a country bumpkin. They exchange in conversation: Do you know sir that you are fishing in my Manor? No sir, I thought I was fishing in my own manner
Alternative Title:
More scraps
Description:
Title from text below lower image., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 4., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published April 1, 1830, by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand and Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
A proposed ticket design for Broughton's Amphitheatre, Hanway Street, London, showing two pugilists in action, bare-chested and with fists raised
Description:
Title from text in banner at bottom of image., A proposed ticket design for Broughton's Amphitheatre, Hanway Street, London., Cf. "Broughton & Slack" in: Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, from pictures, drawings, and scarce prints in the possession of Samuel Ireland, author of this work. London : R. Faulder, 1794-1799, v. 2, p. 120., Annotated on verso by W.S. Lewis: Fulbrigg, May '57 (ticket proposed for Broughton's Amphitheatre) (Wm Windham) ca 1742., and Ms. note in unidentified hand: Broughton's amphitheatre was opened 10 March 1743.
Portrait of the celebrated pugilist, half-length, looking into the distance over right shoulder, in a feigned oval, bald, with an open shirt and jacket buttoned at the waist
Description:
Title etched above image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, Date of publication from the National Portrait Gallery, London., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of the lower portion of the imprint statements. Complete imprint statements supplied from impressions in the British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse etched below image: The mighty combatant, the first in fame, The lasting glory of his native Thame. Rash, & unthinking men, at length be wise; Consult your safety, and resign the prize: Nor tempt superior force; but timely fly The vigour of his arm, the quickness of his eye., and On page 228 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Sold by Faber at the Green Door in [the] great Piazza Covent Garden and Sold by H. Overton & I. Hoole at the White Horse without Newgate London
James Figg stands with his right hand on his back-sword and his left hand on his hip as he faces his a gentleman opponent in a boxing ring; specators crowd the stands on two levels; with ornaments above the frame
Description:
Title from etched text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not Hogarth., and Mounted on a sheet (wove paper 333 x 268 mm, ruled-border in red ink) with two clippings from newspapers (or broadsides?) announcing boxing matches: one dated in ms. 29 May 1752 and the other 1729.
James Figg stands with his right hand on his back-sword and his left hand on his hip as he faces his a gentleman opponent in a boxing ring; specators crowd the stands on two levels; with ornaments above the frame
Description:
Title from etched text., Not Hogarth., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 313-4., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 89., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £8-8-0. Ms. note in pencil on top of print: 4., and On page 233 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 18.5 x 13.2 cm.
James Figg stands with his right hand on his back-sword and his left hand on his hip as he faces his a gentleman opponent in a boxing ring; specators crowd the stands on two levels; with ornaments above the frame
Description:
Title from etched text., Not Hogarth., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 313-4., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 89., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Copy of a man with shaven head (James Figg) in casual dress, holding quarter-staff in his right hand and round-brimmed hat in the left, standing whole length to front in a landscape, with head tilted to right, glancing towards the viewer, smiling with lips parted; after a painting by Hogarth in a private collection."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., "Elizabeth Einberg (personal communication, March 2011) suggests that the subject is likely to be James Figg rather than John Broughton. She also suggests that although the head in the painting was certainly the work of Hogarth, the landscape background was painted by George Lambert, and the body of the sitter perhaps by a third artist. Tony Gee (July 2016) also has some doubts as to whether the subject is actually Broughton."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet damaged with loss of most of the printmaker's name; also sheet trimmed with loss of publisher and printer statements from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0822.1651., and Laid on card. Publication line added in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Published for the proprietor March 25th, 1842, by W. & G. Smith, 24 Lisle Street, Leicester Square and C. Graf, lith. to Her Majesty
Subject (Name):
Broughton, John, 1705-1789,, Figg, James, -1734,, and Willett, H. R. 1786-1857. (Henry Ralph),
"Lord Barrymore and his two brothers are represented as figurines on the shelf of a chimney-piece, along which the title is etched. Each stands on a circular pedestal inscribed: (left to right) 'A Hell-gate Blackguard', 'A Newgate Scrub', and 'A Cripplegate Monster', the three brothers being known as Newgate, Hellgate, and Cripplegate. In the centre Barrymore, as Scrub, is seated as in Act iii of Farquhar's play, when in conference with Archer: dressed in livery and wearing an apron, his hands on his knees (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6221). On the left Augustus Barry, stripped to the waist and wearing boxing-gloves with a high hat, stands in the attitude of a pugilist, which his extreme thinness makes ridiculous. On the right Henry Barry grins and capers, holding a toy whirligig. He wears the fashionable dress of the bloods of the moment: high hat, long tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle, short wrinkled top-boots with enormous spurs. His coat is slipping off his shoulders and fastened by one button (a caricature of the fashion); all have cropped hair, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c. Over Barrymore's head is the lower part of a bust-portrait of the Prince of Wales in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eighteen lines of verse etched below image: To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mantelpieces -- Pugilism -- Toys: whirligig -- Spurs -- Literature: allusion to George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 3 -- Barrymore, Richard, 7th Earl, 'Newgate' -- Barrymore, Henry, 8th Earl, 'Cripplegate' -- Barry, Augustus, 'Hellgate' -- Prince of Wales's circle -- Pictures amplifying subject: Prince of Wales'e portrait., and Mounted to 36 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793, Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823, and Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Chimneypieces, Figurines, Pedestals, Boxers (Sports), and Toys
