print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.5964
- Title
- Object: the Manner in which Mendoza Caught Humphries twice, & Generously laid him down without taking the advantage of his Situation
- Description
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Humphreys standing on the left, one fist raised, the other around the shoulders of his opponent who grasps him around the body and falls back against his knee, looking upwards weakly, with Butcher holding a water bottle and Johnson standing second on the left, Ward second to Humphreys and Jackson holding a bottle, while the umpires Duke of Hamilton, Arston and Sir Thomas Apreece stand with watches on the right and a crowd of spectators watch below. 1790
Etching
- Production date
- 1790
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Width: 372 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The attribution to Isaac Cruikshank was made by Andrew Edmunds (personal communication, February 2011)
Not a caricature.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.5964