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Gajardoni Men's Fencing Knickers
Fencing knickers made by Gajardoni in Italy. Left-side button closure designed for a right-handed fencer. One pocket on the rear-left and five belt loops (three on the rear, two on the front). Approximately 1" extra fabric in the length on the front…
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…
A School of Arms
Illustrated newspaper engraving of a fencing school.
Fencers and Fencing In America
1890 article from the Illustrated American, a weekly magazine published from 1890 until 1900. The article chronicles fencing in the United States as well as the various academies, fencers, instructors and competitions.
The Fencing Lesson
Porcelain sculpture of a fencing master and student. The master is wearing a plastron and correcting the hand position of the young student.
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…
Le Maistre d'Armes
Fencing master, in profile to the left, with sword in right hand.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Le Maître d'armes
Portrait of Maître d'armes Barthélémy fully dressed for fencing with a foil in his right hand and a mask under left his arm.
A Fencing Match
Etching of a fencing match. Inscribed in plate lower left: "Rowlandson 1788"
Life at West Point - Fencing
Postcard sent on September 21, 1909 addressed to Miss Embry, French Instructor, in Institute, West Virginia. Front depicts two West Point cadets wearing plastrons, masks, and fencing gloves and practicing or fencing with foils. Indian clubs and other…
Mounted Sword Contest in San Francisco
Front page of May 22, 1886 Harper's Weekly with illustration drawn by "T de Thulstrup" of a mounted sword contest in San Francisco. Volume 30, number 1535. The illustration depicts two fencers with sabres on horseback with the Telegraph Hill…
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…
L'Ecole de Saint-Cyr
Newspaper article with illustration depicting the salle d'armes at theÉcole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. The article below describes the salle:"La salle d’armes est fort spacieuse, ornée avec goût de trophées étincelants, et la méthode de…
An Assault At Arms - Sword Versus Bayonet
Engraving from Harpers Weekly depicting a fencing bout, or assault at arms, between a fencer armed with a fencing sabre (left) and the other with a fencing bayonet (right). A short article on the assault in includes with the article in the top and…