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Coronation Road Park Royal, London NW10 7QP ▲ Bonhams owns the lot Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 either wholly or partially or Hours of opening 9.30am to may otherwise have an 4.30pm Monday to Friday economic interest. 1 1 had fought Broughton on the 17 February 1741 in a fairground booth Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827) on Tottenham Court Road. Unfortunately, Stevenson died a few days A boxing match with a large crowd gathered after his 45-minute fight. Drawn up in order to prevent a recurrence bears signature and date ‘Rowlandson 1786.’ (lower right) of this unfortunate incident and published on 16 August 1743, pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper ‘Broughton’s Rules’ applied to the bare-knuckle Prize Ring and included 28.6 x 36.9cm (11 ¼ x 14 ½in). ‘That no person is to hit his adversary when he is down, or seize him £5,000 - 7,000 by the ham, the breeches, or any part below the waist; a man on his €5,900 - 8,200 knees to be reckoned down’. Broughton also advocated the use of US$7,600 - 11,000 boxing gloves. Boxing was a subject that Rowlandson depicted on a number of Nonetheless, much was still left to the discretion of referees during occasions in his prints and watercolours. The sport enjoyed an Georgian boxing matches. Rounds were not of a fixed length but unprecedented surge in popularity during the Regency period when it continued until one of the fighters was knocked or thrown to the was openly patronised by the Prince Regent (later George IV) and his ground. Those in his corner were then allowed 30 seconds to return him brothers. Championship boxing matches acquired a louche reputation to the “scratch” – the middle of the ring – failing which his opponent as the places to be seen by the wealthy upper classes. A match would was declared the victor. Broughton’s rules were universally used until often be attended by thousands of people, as depicted by the crowd of 1838. He died in 1789, aged 85, and was buried in Westminster Abbey spectators in this watercolour, many of whom had wagered money on in recognition of his contribution to English boxing. the outcome. Further examples of Rowlandson’s boxing subjects dating to a similar The present watercolour seems to be a unique composition. Here period as the present lot include a watercolour in the Mellon Collection Rowlandson is probably not reproducing an actual bout, but rather dating from 1787 and a slight sketch of a boxing match by him in the imagining a fight between the English champion John Broughton collection of the British Museum, dated 1785-90. Although Broughton’s (on the left) and an unidentified opponent. Broughton is particularly last fight in 1750 predates our watercolour, he was still considered an remembered for introducing ‘Broughton’s Rules’ after an accident in the important figure in boxing circles and indeed a mezzotint of Broughton ring.
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