A composition set in an oval shows a scene from O'Keeffe's Agreeable surprise in which Cowslip (Mrs. Wells) stands in profile on the left holding out a bowl of milk. Lingo (Mr. Edwin) faces the viewer as his eyes turn toward Cowslip; he gestures with his right hand chest-high. Both are three-quarter views of the performers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date based on drawing of Mrs. Wells by Donnman in the Brit. Museum., A related print of Edwin and Wells as Lingo and Cowslip / H. Singleton pinxt. ; Edmund Scott sculpt. Published 1 May 1788 by I. Birchall. See Catalogue of Engraved British portraits, v. 2, p. 136., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edwin, John, 1749-1790, Wells, Mary, approximately 1759-, and O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833.
A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademoiselle d'Eon (right), and Monsieur de Saint George (left). Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810), known as the Chevalier d'Eon, who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. The fencer on the left is Joseph de Bologne de Saint-Georges or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who was the son of a wealthy plantation owner in the French West Indies colony of Guadeloupe and one of his African slaves named Anne
Alternative Title:
Assault and Fencing match
Description:
Title engraved below image., After the painting by Victor Marie Picot., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson in the Lewis Walpole Library card catalog., Another version of this print attributes the design to Gillray: GIllray inv., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; design cropped.
Publisher:
Published by Corbeau at Paris and by Robinde at London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810., and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered on left side: No. xxiii and No. xxiv, respectively or Mrs. Jordan and Richard Daly
Alternative Title:
Irish manager
Description:
Titles from text below images. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" ini the Town and Country Magazine, 1787, v. xviii, page 625.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'i' and 'ii'.
Description:
Titles engraved below images., Plate from: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 33., Temporary local subject terms: Chamber maid., and Mounted to 20.5 x 28 cm, with p. 33-34 from Town and country magazine, 1787, vol. xix.
A portrait said to be of Sir Brook Watson and a grocer's wife whom is reputed to have seduced
Alternative Title:
Pensioned magistrate
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from?: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 51., Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'IV' and 'V'., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., with p. [51]-52 of Town and country magazine, 1787, vol. xix.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'VII' and 'VIII'.
Alternative Title:
Seduced soldier
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from?: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 105., and Temporary local subject terms: Seducers.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Beribboned picture frames -- Lighting: candlestick -- Female costume.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, Henrietta Strt. Covt. Garden
