1837: Very early drawing of women fighting each other

WBAN owns the original drawing and it is
in the our Archive Files

A Scene de Pugilat entre deux Femmes (Archipelago of Tonga), Issued June 1837, Paris by Didot Freres.  This was a engraving printed in the mid-19th century.   Even in the 19th Century we have portraits, and drawings, of women in combat. They are topless and WBAN has covered the topless part on this drawing.