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Portrait of Maître d'Armes Vigeant
Portrait of the French fencing master Arsène Vigeant.
Frontispiece to l'Almanac d'Escrime
Frontispiece to "L'Almanach de l'Escrime" by fencing master Arsène Vigeant. Depicts a fencing master and student both in full fencing attire. Includes an excerpt of the poem "Ballade en l'Honnor de Vigeant" written in July 1888 by François Coppée,…
Padded Mask
Fencing mask with thick horsehair padded lining. Leather-topped cushion around face exterior. Wire frame wrapped with leather strips.
Foil Mask
Light foil mask with light brown faux-leather cushion on tongue and cushioned blade chin rest. Wire frame and seams covered with black leather.
Chez Monsieur Antoine d'Ezpeleta
Illustration of Antoine d'Ezpeleta in his home salle d'armes on rue Benouville in Paris, France. Antoine was a celebrated French amateur fencer and president of salle d'armes Merignac.
The Fencing Master
The Fencing Master is one of two oil paintings of this subject by Melchers. They belong to a small group of full-length pictures of men dressed for their occupational roles. These works are not commissioned portraits but genre paintings in which the…
Jerry's admiration of Tom in an "assault" with Mr. O'Shaunessy at the rooms in St. James's Stt.
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. On the right is a table with foils laid out. On the back wall are three pictures: a…
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
The scene comes from Molière's satirical comedy The Bourgeois Gentleman, which was first performed in 1670. Monsieur Jourdain wishes to be thought of as a gentleman. In demonstrating his new fencing skills to his maidservant Nicole, he is embarrassed…
Sir Richard Burton Dressed for Fencing
Full length portrait of the explorer Sir Richard Burton dressed for fencing and holding a foil.
Der Fechtende Student
The image shows the university fencing school of Altdorf where the university of the free imperial city of Nürnberg was located. A university fencing instructor holds a lesson. Inscription in German reads as follows:
Es kan ein Musen Sohn, nicht…
Es kan ein Musen Sohn, nicht…
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth 1744 - 1781 at home in Naples: Fencing Scene
Lord Fortrose, later Earl of Seaforth, is the central figure in this painting. He is shown in his rented apartment in Naples, watching his guests practising their fencing moves. The man in black at the table is the Neapolitan composer, Nicolo…
Mr. Angelo's Fencing Academy
A hand-coloured print of a fencing match between two gentlemen and observed by a men standing and sitting around the edges of the room. On the left, a man, tying his shoe laces prepares to fence whilst a man standing in the centre of the background…
Woman Piercing a Heart with a Fencing Sword
Seated woman picking a heart off a branch of hearts and piercing it with a sword, causing it to bleed.
At a Fencing "At Home"
Postcard with fencing scene and written joke: "Distinguished Foreigner (hero of a hundred duels): 'It is delightful, Mademoiselle. You English are a sporting nation.' Fair Member: 'So glad you are enjoying it. By the way, Monsieur le Marquis, have…
Belgian Fencing Postcard
Postcard featuring caricatures of fencers against a black background. "Escrime" printed in the top left and the signature of the artist "Fernel" in the bottom left.
Belgian Fencing Postcard
Postcard featuring a left handed female fencer thrusting to her opponent's chest, and specifically to a red heart on his jacket. Both fencers hold figure eight french foils, are on a red piste, and behind them on the wall are crossed swords and two…
Vino Vermouth Cinzano Postcard
Postcard featuring a fencing instructor wearing a red mask and in a teacher's posture and a student in a blue mask on guard. An unmasked fencer waits in the background, and a wall of foils is to the right of the pair of fencers.
Le Maistre d'Armes
Fencing master, in profile to the left, with sword in right hand.
Rapier Foil
Steel swept hilt consisting of knuckle-bow and rear quillon with flat, disc terminals, pas d'ane [now called arms of the hilt] and side rings: urn-shaped pommel with button, original wire-bound grip. Stout ricasso stamped with a makers mark (see…
Fencing Mask
Made of brown leather over a wire frame and grill.