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Richard DIGHTON.
A Striking view of Richmond [and:] Molineaux, 2 hand-coloured engravings by and after Dighton, London: Dighton, March 1810 and January, 1812, 12½ x 8½in., walnut frames.
Reproduced in Lynch The Prize Ring, plate XIV. Lynch observes that "Bill Richmond is the first negro boxer of whom there is any record. It was to Richmond that Molineaux came when, the son of slave parents in Virginia, but legally freed, he came over to England to earn a living." He fought Tom Cribb for the championship in 1810, but was beaten both then and, more decisively, the following year. (2)
A Striking view of Richmond [and:] Molineaux, 2 hand-coloured engravings by and after Dighton, London: Dighton, March 1810 and January, 1812, 12½ x 8½in., walnut frames.
Reproduced in Lynch The Prize Ring, plate XIV. Lynch observes that "Bill Richmond is the first negro boxer of whom there is any record. It was to Richmond that Molineaux came when, the son of slave parents in Virginia, but legally freed, he came over to England to earn a living." He fought Tom Cribb for the championship in 1810, but was beaten both then and, more decisively, the following year. (2)