Cruikshank (Isaac Robert)Going to a Fight. The Sporting World in All its Variety of Style and Costume along the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst, hand-coloured aquatint panorama of 42 numbered scenes, now professionally mounted on a single sheet in four rows, in an original early-19th century fluted wooden frame with inner gilt fillet, possibly as issued, some creasing and surface marking, not including the separate key, 300 by 1000mm approx., [Abbey, Life 473], Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1819.*** Adverts for the panorama at the time of its production mention that it was available mounted on a roll, in a book or framed.“A Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight at Moulsey Hurst, (measuring nearly 14 feet in length) containing numerous Original Characters, many of them Portraits; in which all the Frolic, Fun, Lark, Gig, Life, Gammon and Trying-it-on, are depicted, incident to the pursuit of a Prize Mill: dedicated, by permission, to Mr Jackson, and the Noblemen and Gentlemen composing the Pugilistic Club… Throughout the Picture, not a Pink has been overlooked, nor an Out-and-Outer forgotten: the whole forming ‘A bit of good Truth!’” - Pierce Egan, Sporting Anecdotes, 1822Provenance:From the Boxing Collection of Pierre and Anna Spake.