Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Game cocks.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00737
Identifier
ark:/88435/bg257p17w
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 10.9 x 17.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A23
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Boxers with trainers on left and right, brawling crowd in background.
Inscribed in ink, lower left: "Who first shake hands before they box // then give each other playing knocks // With all the kindness of a brother".
Watermark [partial]: "JW".
Unsigned.
Title & inscription in TR's hand. There are a number of other prints and drawings by Rowlandon depicting prize fights, with simialr compostion of contestants in a ring with spectators, but none that I know correspond closely to his one.

Discovery Information

Subject
Athletes—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Boxers (Sports)—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Affray—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9661c2c1-37ff-44ae-b0fe-c4341c191efa/manifest