A pugilistick club [graphic]Barlow, Inigo, printmakerDecr. 1, 1789.engA celebration in a sporting club. In the center of the room before a large table, a man in a hat (with a black eye?) raises a gavel in an attempt to bring order as two members begin a fist-fight and others converse and laugh. One member restrains a woman as she attempts to hit a man on the head with a tankard; the man appears already unconscious and injured. Boxing gloves, tankards and glasses, hats, and a stick are scattered on the floor in the foreground. The room is lighted by the candles in a candelier. On the walls are a clock, two pictures of fighers -- one of Humphrys and the other of Mendoza; a broadside "Rules" (damaged); a broadside entitled "Last dying speech & confession of W[...]st the Boxer" with a picture of a gallows at the head; and, a picture of two men boxing (the pictures amplifying the subject). On the table are several tankards, wine glasses and punch bowl, smoking pipes, a broadsheet torn in two (World Diary), and a book "Rules for boxing".Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.The left portion of the plate was later published as 'Frontispiece' (no date) in Carlton House magazine with the title: The ending of the old year.Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, printmaker's signature, and partial loss of imprint.Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 81.Title added in a contemporary hand on the mount below the image: Odd-Fellows-Lodge.Mounted to 24 x 32 cm.