Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Going to a Fight. [Illustra]ting the Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume along the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst [Panorama box with viewing case].
Call Number
E North 30/GC022/Robert/Small/Panorama Box/Going to a Fight GA 2011.01486
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5m60qs654
Publisher
1819.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1819
Extent
1 item
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring, Wood (plant material), Glass, Leather
Item description: A series of eight prints depicting forty-one numbered scenes joined together to form a panorama, reading right to left. Scrolled on two drums in red leather case with display window. Sometimes also known as a myriopticon or paper theater.
Item description: Box theater by Sangorski & Sutcliff.
Depiction: A group of Londoners traveling to a boxing match in Mousley Hurst [sic] (modern day East Molesey). Landmarks seen along the way include the White Horse Inn and the Diana Fountain at Hampton Court.
Signed with blind stamp on box: "E.P. Sutton & Company, Sangorski & Sutcliff".

Discovery Information

Subject
Panoramas—England—London—19th century
Paper toys—Great Britain—19th century—Specimens
Caricature
Boxers (Sports)—England—Surrey—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Spectators—England—Surrey—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Panoramas—England—Surrey—1819

Physical Characteristics

File Count
3

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d0d1e27c-4060-44d4-b912-75b6f0f980ff/manifest