Unknown
Two Boxers
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
Status
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.
Two Boxers About 1815 © Compton Verney