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拍品專文
Rowlandson, himself an amateur fencer and boxer, was a good friend of Henry Angelo (1760-1839), who followed his father Domenico Angelo Malevelti Tremamando (1716-1802) as owner of the leading fencing academy in London. His Reminiscences, 1830, are full of references to the artist. The academy was established in London in 1770 and, after several changes of address, settled in Old Bond Street.
Rowlandson produced drawings and engravings of fencing matches from the 1780s onwards. Versions of the present drawing bear different inscriptions alluding to 'Mme Culleoni', 'Madame Cain' or 'Madame Kelu' as fencing with Henry Angelo or 'M. Renault'. The closest is in the Yale Center for British Art (see J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove, The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, 1977, p. 35 no. 115, illustrated), in which the placing of the figures is the same, as is the background, save that it is unfinished.
Rowlandson produced drawings and engravings of fencing matches from the 1780s onwards. Versions of the present drawing bear different inscriptions alluding to 'Mme Culleoni', 'Madame Cain' or 'Madame Kelu' as fencing with Henry Angelo or 'M. Renault'. The closest is in the Yale Center for British Art (see J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove, The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, 1977, p. 35 no. 115, illustrated), in which the placing of the figures is the same, as is the background, save that it is unfinished.