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Historical Fencing Artworks

Engravings and etchings depicting historical sword fighting techniques and figures, showcasing dynamic poses and detailed attire.

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The whims, the duel at the sword. Twenty-seventh number of the suite of 50 pieces engraved in Florence" (Lieure 241, Meaume 820). Etching. 1617. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99606-25 Etching, engraving
Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The whims, the duel at the sword. Twenty-seventh number of the suite of 50 pieces engraved in Florence" (Lieure 241, Meaume 820). Etching. 1617. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99606-25 Etching, engraving
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Illustration. Plate 401. Silver and Goldsmithing. Encyclopedie. Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. 18th c. Engraving. Later colouration.
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Zeus foudroyant un géant ailé Zeus hurls lightning at a winged giant still image. Art reproductions. 1914. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Jupiter (Roman deity), Zeus (Greek deity), Serpents , Mythology, Monsters, Lightning, Wings (Anatomy), Mythology, Greek, Typhon (Greek mythology)
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Jacques Callot, French (1592-1635), Cap. Babeo and Cucuba, c. 1622, etching
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May Day.. Busby, Thomas Lord. Prints. 1820. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Clothing & dress , England , London, Celebrations
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Finnish or Russian bath, 19th century. Artist: Unknown
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Bonaparte bones. (TI)
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The Court of Peers. (IT)
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Arrow practice, tomb of Nevothoh still image. Illustrations. 1844 - 1889. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Archery , To 499, Arrows, Men , Clothing & dress , Egypt , To 499, Bows (Archery) , To 499
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Above, black-figured Greek cup (kylix); below, detail of decoration showing two friezes of satyrs dancing with maenads. Watercolour by A. Dahlstein, 1760/1780 ().
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Ancient Briton with spear and shield, naked Caledonians with woad tattoos, and Queen Boudica with wooden chariot. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.
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The Arabs from the Sahara desert, The large column of Pompei representing , the Graffina brothers, The older one occupies the so -called Chinese breakfast costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, After, Johann Christian Schoeller -, Artist, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver
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Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Habitants de la Guyane Fabricant le Rocou'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper
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Jacques Callot, Drill with Tilted Pikes, 1634 1635 Drill with Tilted Pikes
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Unarmed Combat. Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340/1350 - before 1450)
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Combat with Dagger; Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340,1350 - before 1450); Padua (or), Italy; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1,8 in.)
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Combat with Sword; Unknown, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340,1350 - before 1450); Padua (or), Italy; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1,8 in.)
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Turnhout, Brepols, Philippus Jacobus, Grenadiers van de garde, Grenadiers de la garde, Voltigeurs, verso - stamped, Sheet with 2 horizontal rows with representations of soldiers. In the bottom margin a five-line caption in Dutch and in French in two columns. Numbered center top: N. 30., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 380 mm, width 303 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Belgisch, 1778 - 1845, publisher, uitgever, 1800 - 1833, paper, papier, houtcut, kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker
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James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, Destruction of the French Collossus, 1798. Etching, hand-colored.
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Ah! Would You 1892 England. Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on board . Philip William May
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SATIRA - REVISTA LA FLACA - 22 DE ENERO DE 1871. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. GENERAL JUAN PRIM Y PRATS (1814-1870). PRAXEDES MATEO SAGASTA (1825-1903).
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Fox's martyrs or The patriots in limbo, England : Publisher not named, March 1784, 1 print : etching ; 25.2 x 34.9 cm (plate), Print shows Charles James Fox's martyrs during the American Revolution. On the right, Frederick, Lord North, hangs from a devil's pitchfork and wears a large stone labeled American War from his neck. In the center, Charles Fox apologizes for his actions, in the aftermath of the 1784 general election. The 1784 Parliamentary election was the first national election. The
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The Battle Between Crib and Molineaux, September 28, 1811. Artist: Attributed to George Cruikshank (British, London 1792-1878 London). Dimensions: Plate: 9 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (25.3 × 35.2 cm)Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 1/8 in. (26.7 × 35.8 cm). Publisher: Walker and Knight, London. Subject: Thomas Cribb (British, 1781-1848); Tom Molineaux (American, 1784-1818). Date: October 3, 1811.This print represents the final boxing match between Tom Cribb, a leading English pugilist, and Tom Molineaux on September 28, 1811 at Thistleton Gap in Rutland-Molineaux was a former American slave who spent most of his career in Britain and Ireland. He first had fought Crigg for the English title on December 3, 1810 at Shenington Hollow, Oxfordshire, and was defeated after 35 rounds. The return match, seen here, attracted 15,000 spectators. Molineaux hit with great power but was knocked out in the 11th round. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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A bald man wearing a red loin cloth holding a club and a black cloth. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
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Games unknown, 14th century. A variant of hide and seek, and boys playing a guessing game where one holds up a certain number of fingers and his colleagues have to show the same, similar to scissors, paper, rock. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
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'Labor' - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., representing two young farmers clearing the land. Date: circa 1896
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Carpenters. 19th century reproduction of miniature in 15th century manuscript Chroniques de Jainaut
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Venus, Cupid and Vulcan, Roman gods and goddess of love, and the forge. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Gods), Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c.1820.
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Leicester recalled from his role of Governor in the Netherlands, by Elizabeth I. His departure is caricatured. Date: 1586
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Typical fetishes of the culture of Dahomey, Central Africa, Old 19th century engraved illustration, Le Tour du Monde 1863
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Hoeing' 1826 , Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie. From 'The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar'. (London, 1826).
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Dibbaldus Segon; Friese Heerslers.
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Pan, Chiron and Flora, Roman and Greek gods of nature, medicine and flowers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Gods), Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c.1820.
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Dibujo político satírico publicado en el periódico La Viña. Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Escolar (1825-1903), presidente del gobierno de España en medio de un duelo de espadas. Año 1883. Author: Francisco Ramón Cilla Pérez.
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The dead brothers Deaths of Eteocles and Polynices Flaxman, John, 1755-1826. still image. 1879. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Funeral processions, Grief, Mythology, Greek, Polyneices (Greek mythology), Eteocles (Greek mythology)
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Lady in "tonjo", 1828. Author: R. ACKERMAN.
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Young Malay woman carrying pales of water with a yoke. She is bare-breasted and wears a sarong. Jeune Malaise portant de leau. Oceanie. Adapted from an illustration by Jacques Arago of a young girl of Timor carrying water in Narrative of a Voyage around the world. Handcoloured woodcut by Lisbet after Arago from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.
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Venetian chandeliers of the fourteenth century, vintage engraving. Venetian chandeliers of the fourteenth century, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679816
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Swimming Instructions (Breaststroke, Fig. 1-4, Backstroke, Fig. 5 & 6) 1901 Artist Unknown Color Lithograph
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William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 111, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.", between 1797 and 1798. Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page.
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Prince Itō Hirobumi (16 October 1841 - 26 October 1909), born as Hayashi Risuke and also known as Hirofumi, Hakubun and briefly during his youth as Itō Shunsuke, was a Japanese politician, Prime Minister and preeminent member of Japan's genrō, an elite group of senior statesmen who dominated the Meiji oligarchy. After Japan emerged victorious over Russia, the ensuing Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905 made Itō the first Japanese Resident-General of Korea
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Man on hobbyhorse with spear tilting at a fixed quintain, 14th century, soldier in armour attacking a pel quintain, 14th century, a saracen or turk quintain, 14th century, and naked boys attacking a water-tub quintain, 14th century.
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William Hanlon. Zampillaerostation or the flying trapeze.
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Papyrus reed (Cyperus papyrus) being used to make writing material. Stem of the reed used to make a form of paper. Also used to produce fibre for sails, mats, cloth, etc, and roots used as fuel. Pith used as food. Artist's reconstruction. Liebig trade ca