The Bruiser Bruisd; Or, the Knowing-Ones Taken-in
attributed to Louis Philippe Boitard
1750
British Museum 1868,0808.3905
This scene shows the defeat of pugilist Jack Broughton by the butcher Jack Slack in April 1750 at Broughton’s Amphitheatre in Oxford Road, London. Broughton had previously secured the patronage of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (suppressor of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745–46), who is reported to have lost £1,000 on the match, and thereafter lost interest in supporting Broughton.
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