Amateur Wrestling Collectibles Gallery
Artwork & Prints though the 19th Century


Drawing for the choir of the Cistercian, Eglise de Cambria (Church of Cambria) in France, 1200-1240.
Architect- Villard de Honnecourt, from the National Museum of France (Paris)


unknown Middle Ages book illustration


16th century print


16th century print by Durer


1650 "A Wrestling Match" oil painting by Michael Sweerts


undated painting

1700's Italian sketch


1771 Pierre L'Enfant charcoal drawing

1781 Breslau print


1786 print


1805-20 Northumberland match sketch


1820's Swiss wrestling scene


1820 Santo Inejeangros print


1824 Mulready


1827 unknown print


1828 German print


1834 Chinese print


1841 Italian print

1853 Gustave Courbet print


1857 Japanese print


1863 Japanese print


1868 Laos funeral games


1870 print, Agricultural Hall in Islington, London


1873 print, Madagascar Royalty match


1875 Alex Falguiere print

1875 print, Wrestling at Little Bridge, Great Britain


1876 print, Grasmere Lakeland Sports, Great Britain

1876 print, Swiss wrestling scene, Munich


1876 print, Swiss wrestling match


1876 Burmese scene


"The Guicowar of Baroda's Wrestlers" from
The Illustrated London News, February 17, 1877


1878 Indian troups print


Late 1880's Anschultz drawing


1885 print

1885 print


1890 Paul Serusier, Breton wrestling


1890 Friant print

1890 French print of a sculpture by
Alexandre Louis Marie Charpentier
Musée d'Orsay, Paris


1890 print Bauer (FR) vs. Miller (US)

1890 Hackenschmidt vs. Madgali print


Faive print


1891 A Winter's Morning in Cornell


1899 French print


1899 Thomas Eakins sketch for final print


1899 Thomas Eakins print


19th century French work

19th century Russian work


1899 French print of holds


unknown Munka (Manipuri wrestling) engraving from photograph


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