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Sport (Ralph Bruce)
Gypsy Boxing Match (Original) (Signed)

Gypsy Boxing Match (Original) (Signed) by Sport (Ralph Bruce) at The Illustration Art Gallery

Ref: BruceBorrowLL (Click for LARGE picture)

Artist: Ralph Bruce (biography)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 16" x 11" (410mm x 290mm)
Date: 1968
Signature: Signed by artist off image bottom right

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Ralph Bruce.

An older George Borrow looks on at his younger self fighting with the famous Gypsy boxer "the Flaming Tinman". Borrow was himself a tinker at the time and travelled all over Britain. In later life his travels continued including a trip to Spain to distribute Bibles that nearly cost him his life. He wrote several books about his travelling life.

From the series They Lived Their Books Author George Borrow watches a boxing match. From Look and Learn 366 (18 January 1969).


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Sport (Ralph Bruce)

Sport (Ralph Bruce)