Print Description
A gentleman fencer demonstrating the fourth position of the salute. An elegant print from Angelo’s renowned fencing manual “L’Ecole des Armes”.
Made by William Wynne Ryland after James Gwim.
Medium: Copperplate Engraving on hand-laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 29.8 x 47.6 cm (11.73 x 18.74 inch). Image size: 25.4 x 37.5 cm. (10 x 14.76 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light soiling, foxing and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
DOMENICO ANGELO, FENCING, L’ECOLE DES ARMES, 18TH CENTURY, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING, RYLAND, LONDON, GENTLEMANLY ARTS | EXPO-434
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
L’Ecole des Armes by Domenico Angelo. Published by R. & J. Dodsley, London, 1763. During the eighteenth-century, fencing was a popular sport among the English royalty and aristocracy, primarily learned on the Continent until the Italian fencing master Domenico Angelo Malevolti Tremamondo established his fencing school in London. A riding instructor by trade, Angelo was born in Leghorn, Italy in 1716 and briefly trained with the celebrated fencer Monsieur Teillagory in Paris. After arriving in England in 1755, he participated in and won several public fencing matches, quickly earning a reputation that helped him secure high-ranking clients such as the Duke of Devonshire and the Earl of Pembroke. He soon capitalized on his popularity by establishing Angelo’s School of Arms, where he taught horsemanship as well as fencing to an affluent and fashionable clientele. Angelo also continued to teach privately and in 1758, instructed the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. Over the years, his school became a venerable British institution, which was run by successive generations of the Angelo family until the early twentieth-century. In 1763, Angelo published L’Ecole d’Armes, a respected fencing handbook comprised of beautifully illustrated plates by renowned English artists like Chamber, Gwyn and Ryland depicting principal fencing positions, and esteemed by many as the ultimate authority on fencing.
Reference: Lipperheide 2974.
Biography engraver: William Wynne Ryland (1732/1738-1783) was an English engraver, who pioneered stipple engraving and was executed for forgery.
Biography artist: James Gwim or Gwinn (c.1720-1769) was an Irish artist.
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