Print, trade-card, forgery (BM Cc,1.259)

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Print, trade-card, forgery (BM Cc,1.259)

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Summary

Forgery purporting to be a trade-card for James Figg, prize fighter and instructor in sword and quarter-staff; portrait of Figg standing full-length, one hand on his hip, the other on the hilt of his sword, with another man to left of him holding a quarter-staff, in a raised fighting ring with spectators; in a decorative border with crossed swords above, a man with a sword to either side and an inscription plaque with weapons below.
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Date

1760 - 1860
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Source

British Museum
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Public Domain

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