From the Henry De Silva Collection  A Collection of Prints...

Hammer

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From the Henry De Silva Collection 

A Collection of Prints to include: 

1842: The Duel, steel engraving from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (20 x 16 cm) by William Powell Frith. 

1845: Photographic reproduction of a coloured lithograph (24 x 20 cm) by Cham (Charles Amédée de Noé), mounted.  

Mid-19th c: Boys fencing from Every Boy’s Book (15 x 10 cm), mounted. 

1856-58: Coloured steel engraving of a single stick fight from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part II (21 x 16 cm) by George Cruickshank. 

1873: The Death of Sir George Staunton, steel engraving (26 x 21 cm) by John Blake MacDonald. 

1882: Assault-at-Arms in St James’s Hall, conducted by the London Athletic Club, steel engraving (24 x 17.5 cm) from the Illustrated London News of five scenes by Alfred Chantrey Corbould. 

1894: Nach dem kampf engraving of two women fencers (17 x 12 cm) by J Koppay from Moderne Kunst, mounted. 

1901: The Final Round – Mr Montgomerie (Oxford Fencing Club) and Mr Evan James (the winner), drawing of the 1901 foil final by the artist-engraver-fencer Frederick Townsend (32 x 22 cm mounted. 

1968: Coloured facsimile copy of a copperplate engraving from Angelo’s L’Ecole des Armes, 1765, reprinted in Switzerland in 1968. 

– two  other coloured facsimile copies from another reprint of the same work.