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… Image James Gillray, ‘Mendoza’, Met Museum, 66.683.9, 1788. Image Jack Broughton, Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. Image C.R. Ryley, 'Daniel Mendoza & Richard Humphreys', United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, 2016.184.160, 1790 Image James Gillray, … its status, its popularity was enhanced by the dramatization of boxing matches in the press. Those which opposed Daniel Mendoza, also called the ‘Jew’, to Richard Humphreys, the ‘Christian’ from Clapham from 1788 to 1790, gained public …
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