The Road to a Bare Knuckle fight, 1821
From Travels in England published in 1946 from an earlier print. Depicting the confusion on the roads caused by an illegal boxing match. Possibly refers to one of the great fight events of the age when 22,000 people gathered on Hungerford Common to witness a bare knuckle prize bout between one of the "Bristol Boys", one Bill Neat, a butcher of that city, and Tom Hickman ("The Gas Man") in December 1821
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