Two men fight a duel with rapiers in the courtyards of a building. Through a large doorway peers Sir Robert Walpole his finger to his lips, saying "Let them cut one another's throats".
Alternative Title:
Duel between Lord Hervey and the Honble. William Pultney
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Subjects identified in manuscript on British Museum catalogue impression., Lewis Walpole Library: The two duellists were formerly misidentified as Lord Chesterfield and Viscount Cobham., For publication date of print see British Museum Catalogue of prints and drawings, v. iii, p. 372., Variant state, without caption title above the image and without publisher. Cf. No. 1868 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
Five rows with titled dot-and-line figure vignettes engaged in various activities including fencing, duelling, interpersonal actions. Top row from left to right show the stick figures (or "pin men"): "Asking to dance", "Leading out", "Hands round", "Down the middle", "Right & left" and "Setting". Second row from left to right: "Cross hands", "Pousette", "Hornpipe", "Tete à tete", "Fainting", and "Taking home royal". Third row: "Battledore", Tight rope", "Single stick". Fourth row: "Believe me", "O' how lovely", "Don't [illegible] me", "Feeling queer". Fifth row: "Feeling querrer", "Attack", and "Friends arriving too late"
Description:
Title from related published print., Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on the back of the sheet., The first two lines are identical (with the exception for a slight change in the title of the third figure, top row) to a plate entitled "Dottator et lineator loquitur" and published in: Ackermann's Repository of Arts for February 1, 1817, following page 90., An example of the "line and dot" caricature., The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b, and The published print was accompanied by a satirical poem from the artist's perspecive, scorning the great masters' classical training in figure drawing and sculpture.
Tom fences with the fencing-master as spectators stand round the room or sit on a bench along the back wall, some wearing fencing jackets, others top-hatted. An umpire watches from a high stand (1.). Below Tom are Logic and Jerry. On the right is a table with foils laid out. On the back wall are three pictures: a battle-piece and two landscapes
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint supplied from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 252., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint.
Title from item., Date and English translation from www.lovelife.ch website., At upper right: Love Life [O represented by a pink condom] ; Stop Sida ; www.lovelife.ch, In lower right margin: EURO RSCG Zurich., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
L'Office fédéral de la santé publique et l'Aide Suisse contre le Sida
Subject (Topic):
AIDS (Disease), Safe sex in AIDS prevention, Condom use, Fencing, and Women
A scene of a joust in Henry Angelo's fencing academy. A portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, painted by Mather Brown and gifted to Angelo by the sitter, hangs on the wall on the right
Alternative Title:
Mr. Henry Angelo's fencing academy
Description:
Title etched below image., For more information about the Saint-Georges portrait, see Grego., Also signed in image: Rowlandson 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of lower half of imprint; imprint mostly legible., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 29[?], 1791, by H. Angelo, No. 16 Boulton Street, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835. and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799,
"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
A scene with two men in a sitting room decorated with a rug, curtains, and a wall full of framed sporting prints: The one gentleman sits at a table playing a flute. The other gentleman is practicing fencing moves, a manual on the floor beside him. His lunge at the target on the back of the door has impaled the butler on the other side in the chest causing him to drop the tea service tray
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., 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):
Accidents, Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Flutes
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "All gentlemen and yeomen good,," [sic]., Printed in four columns with the title and four woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by lines of ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 34. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by L. How, in Petticoat-lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Fencing, Ballads, English, Brigands and robbers, Swordplay, Broadsides, Bows (Archery)., Arrows, Archery, Targets (Sports)., Daggers & swords, Spears, and Shields
"A fencing match between a negro (left) and a lady (right) whose face is concealed by a fencing mask. The button of his foil touches her breast and he says: "Mungo here Mungo dere, Mungo Ev'ry where, above, & below Hah! Vat your Gracy tink of me Now". He is fashionably dressed, a large nosegay lies on the ground beside him together with his laced hat, tasselled cane, and an open book: "Les École des Armes Avec Les Attudes [sic] est Positions Par Angelo [sic]". Two books lie on the ground by the lady, the uppermost being "Vol 5th Mungo Bill". The duchess (Prior's 'Kitty', 1700-77) is thin and tall, and dressed in the manner of many years ago, as was her custom, in laced stomacher, and short lace-trimmed apron"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Duchess of [Queensberry] playing at foils with her favorite lap dog Mungo ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Titled in British Museum catalogue: The Duchess of Queensberry and Soubise., Ninth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr., though plate not numbered., S. Foot is Samuel Foote., Another state, with title, of no. 5120 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: countermark I V., Letter or letters between "of" and "--" in title erased from this impression. Zeroes and the pound sign after "1" in title appear to have been added in ink., and Plate numbered '9' in pencil in the upper right corner.
