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., 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.
Title from item., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Proof with title. Cf. No. 5490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Place of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Adaptation, in reverse, of The oracle by John Dixon., Temporary local subject terms: Acts: Stamp Act -- America: tea -- Taxation: tea -- Emblems: France as a cock --Personifications: Time -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- Switzerland -- Holland -- Lighting: magic lantern -- Flags: American flag with serpent -- French prints., and "No. 126" added in an unknown hand at top center of sheet.
BEIN Za Zst65: Bookseller's label: William Jackson (Books) Ltd.: 6,14(copy 2)., BEIN Za Zst65: Ms. notes: Ralph Hodgson: 23(copy 2)., BEIN Za Zst65: From the library of Ralph Hodgson: 18,21,22-23(copy 2); 14,22(copy 3)., BEIN Za Zt65: Presentation inscription from Gertrude Stein: I always liked are there six or another question, don't we. B.W.: 6(copy 1)., BEIN Za Zt65: Presentation inscription from Gertrude Stein to Carl Van Vechten: For Carl all I have written now and always with love. Gtde: 15(copy 2)., BEIN Za Zt65: Presentaion inscription from Gertrude Stein to Carl Van Vechten: If he thinks about it was not a novel of transition because dear Carl we love you Carl. Gtde: 10(copy 2), BEIN Za Zt65: Presentation inscription from Gertrude Stein to Carl Van Vechten: As a wife has a cow, a love story and Carl likes a cow and a wife and a love story he likes it all and we like it all which is Carl as a wife has a cow, a love story. Gtde: 3(copy 2), BEIN Za Zt65: Presentation inscription from Gertrude Stein to Carl Van Vechten: To Carl the Four Saints in transition but not in transition but in fullfillment. Gtde: 16/17(copy 2), BEIN Za Zt65: Presentation inscription from Gertrude Stein to Carl Van Vechten: All about questions for Carl, lots of love, Gtde: 8(copy 1), BEIN Za Zt65: From the library of John J. Slocum: 10-11,13-14,16/17-18,21-22,27(copy 1); 1,4-6,8,19/20(copy 2); 3-9(copy 3)., BEIN Za Zt65: Bookplate: Carl Van Vechten: 6,8,23(copy 1); 15,16/17(copy 2)., BEIN Gallup Eliot C236: From the Donald C. Gallup Collection of T.S. Eliot., and Editors: Apr. 1927-1938 Eugene Jolas (with Elliot Paul, Apr. 1927-Mar. 1928; Robert Sage, Nov. 1927-fall 1928).
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seated on clouds with cherub-like figures assisting him on the right in the backgroun, his red cape blowing in the wind against a stormy sky
Description:
Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., Based on the Benjamiin West oil painting now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., and Embossed letters at lower left corner: Cercle Librairie estampes encircling initials RTN.
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication supplied by curator., and In sepia ink lower right margin below plate: a monsieur Durand Hommage respectueuse Gustave Pellet.
Publisher:
Gustave Pellet
Subject (Topic):
Love, Maternal, Motherhood, Kissing, Children, and Mothers
Date, title, and place of publication supplied by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Convalescence, Childbirth, Mothers, Nurses, and Children
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720