Boxing Collection (page 5)

James J Braddock, Irish-American boxer, 1938. Braddock (1905-1974) shocked the boxing world when he defeated World Heavyweight Champion Max Baer on points in 1935

Jack Kid Berg, English boxer, 1938. Born Judah Bergman in Stepney in Londons East End, Jack Kid Berg (1909-1991) won the world light-welterweight championship in 1930 when he defeated American

Lou Ambers, American boxer, 1938. Ambers (1913-1995) fought at lightweight in a career that featured 88 wins, 8 losses and 6 draws between 1932 and 1941

Henry Armstrong, American boxer, 1938. Regarded as one of the greatest fighters in boxing history, Armstrong (1912-1988) won his first world title, at featherweight, in 1937

Max Baer, American boxer, 1938. Baer (1909-1959) won the World Heavyweight Championship in 1934 when he knocked out defending champion Primo Carnera

James Figg, prize fighter, c19th century. Artist: R Graves
James Figg, prize fighter, c19th century

Bare-knuckle boxing, c18th century

St George and the Dragon and Mademoiselle Riposting, 1789. Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810)

The Royal Academy, 1786. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

The bruising match, 1730. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

The Present Age... 1767.Artist: LP Boitard
The Present Age: Adress d to the professsors of driving, dressing, ogling writing, playing, gambling, racing, dancing, duelling, boxing, swearing, humming, building, etc, etc, etc, 1767

December - Boxing Day, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
December - Boxing Day, 19th century

Amateur boxing competition between Germany and Poland, 1936. A print from Olympia 1936, Die Olympischen Spiele 1936, Volume I, Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg, 1936

Boxing in Paris, 1899. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 12th November 1899

Victor McLaglen, British boxer and actor, 1934-1935. McLaglen travelled to Hollywood in the 1920s. He won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Informer (1935)

Carl Brisson, Danish born actor, 1934-1935. Born Carl Pederson in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1893, Brisson was a professional boxer before he became a Hollywood actor

Phorbas, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Phorbas, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Both Members of This Club, 1909. Artist: George Wesley Bellows
Both Members of This Club, 1909. Inspired by fights at Tom Sharkeys Athletic Club in New York. At the time, public boxing matches were illegal in the city

Bronze statue of a boxer, a Roman copy of a Greek original by Apollonius. Now in the National Museum in Rome

Roman Hellenistic-style sculpture of a boxer, at the Vatican Museums

Baked clay plaque of two boxers fighting, while musicians play, from Larsa, Iraq, 2000BC-1750BC
Baked clay plaque of two boxers fighting, while musicians play the drums and clapper, from Larsa, Iraq, 2000BC-1750BC. From the British Museums collection

Roman mosaic of boxers with wrapped hands, frm the Bardo Museum in Tunis (Carthage)

Bear Garden, Southwark, London, after its third rebuilding, 1648. By this time plays and prize-fighting had been added to the original entertainment of bear baiting

Athletics, 1869. Artist: George du Maurier
Athletics, 1869. Then, as now, boxing was a dangerous sport and, in this cartoon, Punch offers advice on a means of increasing its safety. From Punch, or the London Charivari, September 4, 1869

An opinion on boxing, 1860. The father of the house, warming his rump at the fire, cannot understand why anyone would wish to read about the sport of prize fighting

Mr. Bright offers to give satisfaction to the Liberal Party, 1858. Mr John Bright (on the left) had made a speech at Manchester in which he forcefully reiterated his well-known views on the subjects

The Boxers from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836. Creator: John Thompson
The Boxers from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

Omega stopwatch, ca. 1960. Creator: Omega
Omega stopwatch owned by Chris Dundee, original owner of the World Famous 5th St. Gym, a boxing gym in Miami Beach, Florida, where many fighters made their names, including Muhammad Ali

Mechnical tally counter, ca. 1960. Creator: Veeder-Root
Tally counter owned by Chris Dundee, original owner of the World Famous 5th St. Gym, a boxing gym in Miami Beach, Florida, where many fighters made their names, including Muhammad Ali

Tom Jones & the Landlord, Partridge & Susan, Mrs Waters & the Landlady, from " The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", 1792

Boxing, from Worlds Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1888

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