# Royal Cock Pit

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PUGIN, Augustus Charles](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pugin-augustus-charles-rb8c4584500d9dc>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Hand-coloured etching, aquatint, 220 x 261 mm

## Commentary

The picture shows the interior of the cock pit off Whitehall, a fight in action; two cocks fighting in circular ring, their owners crouching behind them, men surrounding gesticulating wildly at fight. The print was made by John Bluck.

## Related artworks

- [Design for a Sofa in the Gothic Revival Style](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pugin-augustus-charles-rb8c4584500d9dc/design-for-a-sofa-in-the-gothic-revival-style-r152febda0c3e2e>)
- [Specimens of Gothic Architecture \(frontispiece\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pugin-augustus-charles-rb8c4584500d9dc/specimens-of-gothic-architecture-frontispiece-r41958a8f6461e9>)
- [View of Westminster Hall and Bridge, London](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pugin-augustus-charles-rb8c4584500d9dc/view-of-westminster-hall-and-bridge-london-rb82bbdee80172a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)