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.
Volume 2, page 47. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man and two women with turbans seated round a table drinking from large goblets; in the background cushions and a lute; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Belle estrangère empoisonneé par sa soeur, tiré de lhistoire du docteur juif : vide le petit bossu, daus Les contes arabes
Description:
Titles from text in English and French below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 47 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 31st March 1787, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Tables, Turbans, and Lutes
A young man in Scottish dress makes love to a young girl as they sit under a tree on the banks of a river
Description:
Title from item., Number '195' appears in lower left corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Scottish dress -- Love scene -- River -- Highlands.
Title etched below image., Attributed to Kingsbury. Cf. British Museum catalogue., At bottom of the image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., Temporary local subject terms: Bishops -- Ladies' costumes -- Derrières -- Muffs -- Upside down pictures., and Partial watermark center on left edge.
Title etched below image., Wicksteed as engraver from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; loss of text from imprint statement?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume -- Puffs -- Men milliners -- Altered Biblical quotation: "They are altogether lighter than vanity" from Psalm 62:9., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 16, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covt. Gard
A thin, worn-out author sits at his table under the window in his small garret in the attic. He leans his chin on his hand as he writes with his quill pen. A thin dog sits at his feet. A robust man (a bailiff?) with a cane confronts him presumably with bills. His bed is folded up against the wall
Alternative Title:
Miseries of authorship
Description:
Title etched below image., "Designed & etched for The British mercury." Cf. British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Rowlandson in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Bookseller -- Garret -- Bed., and Mounted to 20 x 26 cm.
Title from item., Originally drawn for the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, p. 441., and Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'xxix' and 'xxx'.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1, 1787 by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
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
A young woman on horseback is talking to a soldier who is leaning on her knees. In the background are two tents, one of which is open and inside are three women seated a table. One of the women is sitting on the lap of a soldier. There is a cannon in the left foreground opposite the horseback rider. A drum can be seen on its side in the right corner of the open tent
Description:
Title from item. and Number '211' in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Novr. by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Couples, Courtship, Military camps, Military uniform, British, and Tents
Title from item., Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'xix' and 'xx'., Originally intended for the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, p. 297., and Temporary local subject terms: Lady Jane Landesborough -- Jacob Rey later John King, known as the "Jew King".
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Stt
