Bare-knuckle posters & prints

Men bare-knuckle boxing Anonymous

The Fight, 2015 Lee Sellers

John Broughton John (after) Ellys

James Belcher English School

Paddington Tom Jones English School

John Broughton English School

Tom Cribb English School

The Famous Battle Between Richard Humphreys and Daniel Mendoza, January 9th 1788 James Gillray

Caught him with both arms round the waist, and threw him on the stage Pugnis

The Fight between Jackson and Mendoza at Hornchurch, 1795 English School

William Warr Defeating William Wood at Navestock in Essex, December 31st 1788 Richard Ramsay Reinagle

John Gulley English School

The fight between Tom Spring and Bill Neat Pugnis

He caught Tom a smack under the chin Pugnis

Boxing Match Between Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphreys, 29th September 1790 Charles Reuben Ryley

Daniel Mendoza Charles Jean Robineau

Ceramic, The Boxer Tom Cribb: in canary breeches, Anonymous

Sent Bob down on his hands and knees Pugnis

Boxing match between Thomas Futrell and John Jackson, June 9th 1788 James Gillray

Joe Lannon, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1887 Allen & Ginter

Jimmy Carroll, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Cigaret…, 1887 Allen & Ginter

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer John Hoppner

Fight between Dick Curtis and Jack Perkins Pugnis

The Bruiser Bruis'd, Or, the Knowing-Ones Taken-in, 1750 English School

Jimmy Carney, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1887 Allen & Ginter

The second fight between Bendigo and Ben Caunt Pugnis

Jack Dempsey, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1887 Allen & Ginter

Charlie Mitchell, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Ciga…, 1887 Allen & Ginter

Jack McAuliffe, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Cigare…, 1887 Allen & Ginter

Ike Weir, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1887 Allen & Ginter

Richard Humphries, engraved by John Young, 1788 (after) English School

Boys playing Knucklebones (Babki), ca 1812 Yemelyan Mikhaylovich Korneev

Knucklebones. Illustration from Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo? by Giulio Ferrario, 1831 Luigi Giarrè

Ned Turner George Sharples

Boys playing Knucklebones, 1860s Anonymous

Tom Oliver, engraved by Percy Roberts George (after) Sharples