Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Tom Cribb NPG D34310

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Young, after Thomas Douglas Guest

The Londoner Tom Cribb rose from being a dockhand to Britain's most successful boxer. He became British champion in 1809 and his reputation was sealed the following year after his celebrated victory over the black American prizefighter Tom Molineaux. Aristocratic patrons known as 'The Fancy' promoted and financed contests, many of which were based in taverns around the Charing Cross Road. George IV famously invited eighteen of the leading boxers of the day, including Cribb, to be ushers and pages at his coronation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.