 A dray crushes a playing boy while the drayman sleeps, oblivious to the boy's injury and the beer spilling from his barrels.Posters in the background advertise a cockfight and a boxing match as further evidence of the brutal entertainments favoured by the subjects of the image.The boxing match is to take place at Broughton's Amphitheatre, a notoriously tough venue established by the "father of pugilism", Jack Broughton