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Joseph Menear (1868)

  • Joseph Menear
  • Date: July 16, 1868
  • Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • Type: Picture
  • Collection: Devonshire Wrestling Society
  • Tags: Joseph Menear

A portrait of Joseph Menear.

John Slade (1866)

  • Champion John Slade
  • Date: December 19, 1866
  • Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • Type: Picture
  • Collection: Devonshire Wrestling Society
  • Tags: Champion John Slade

John Slade, Champion Wrestler (Devon and Cornwall). Featured in The Illustrated Sporting News. Engraved by Moore V. Williamson. Original page in the archives of DWS.

Abraham Cann portrait (1864)

  • Abraham Cann
  • Date: October 16, 1864
  • Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • Type: Newspaper Picture
  • Tags: Abraham Cann

“No doubt about it” (1876)

  • Alfred Concanen
  • Date: July 8, 1876
  • Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • Type: Picture
  • Tags: Alfred Concanen

From the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, July 8th, 1876. Drawing called “Devon Wrestling- “No Doubt About It.” Illustrated by Alfred Concanen.

Devon & Cornwall Wrestling meeting at Plymouth (1875)

  • Alfred Concanen Plymouth
  • Date: April 17, 1875
  • Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • Type: Picture
  • Collection: Devonshire Wrestling Society
  • Tags: Alfred Concanen Plymouth

Appearing in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, pp.65. Illustrated by Alfred Concanen.

‘Sketches at the Devon and Cornwall Wrestling Match at Exeter’ (1875)

  • Alfred Concanen Baker Exeter Exeter Cathedral James Layman Oliver Rowe Severe play Stone
  • Date: June 5, 1875
  • Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • Type: Picture
  • Tags: Alfred Concanen Baker Exeter Exeter Cathedral James Layman Oliver Rowe Severe play Stone

An original pen-and-ink sketch by Alfred Concanen, featured on pagee 236 of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (5 June 1875).

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