Sporting Life poster: Policeman Doxey's First Arrest – Vintage Poster
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Sporting Life poster: Policeman Doxey's First Arrest in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Sporting Life poster: Policeman Doxey's First Arrest
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The title points to a humorous poster about Policeman Doxey's first arrest, a rookie moment that makes a different subject from the racing and sport scenes the Sporting Life is usually linked with. The Sporting Life was a London newspaper devoted to racing, betting and athletics from the late 1850s, and its promotional material often used caricature and comic situations to catch readers' attention. A constable's first arrest was a familiar source of laughs in Victorian and Edwardian popular print, where ordinary people and local authority figures were common targets of gentle ridicule. The figures' expressions and gestures are worth studying, since they carry much of the joke.
| Original scan | 2,029 × 3,067 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1030u |
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