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- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1827]
- Call Number:
- 826.00.00.50
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An enthusiastic young man practising fencing at a target on a door, accidentally having pierced the door and struck a servant behind it, whose tea tray falls to the floor; another young man playing a flute at a table looks over in surprise; a fencing book lying on the floor, sporting prints or other pictures on the wall behind, including two of a black and a white boxer."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.312., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath, some of which have William Cole's July 1827 imprint in lower left. This is perhaps a later state with imprint burnished from plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Practice [graphic]
