John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the world / J. Cameron. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the world / J. Cameron., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the world / J. Cameron.
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John L. Sullivan, the Boston-born heavyweight, is the figure at the center of this Currier & Ives lithograph, drawn by J. Cameron and published in New York around 1883. By then Sullivan had built a reputation as the most famous bare-knuckle and then gloved fighter in America, and prints like this one helped turn prizefighting into a subject for the general public. The lithograph's title calls him champion of the world, a claim that reflected his dominance of the heavyweight division in the early 1880s. Note how the firm's commercial lithography, usually reserved for landscapes and genre scenes, was applied here to a sporting hero.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1883. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | MI : Gale Research |
| Notes | Title from item. Copied by permission of "The New York Illustrated Times |
| Subjects | Sullivan, John Lawrence,--1858-1918. Boxers (Sports)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,147 × 1,459 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217072 |
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