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Print made by: William Blake

After: Samuel Collings
Published by: Harrison & Co
Title
The Discomfited Duellists
Description
English: 'The Wit's Magazine', i. 81. Illustration to 'A Preservative against Duelling', pp. 89-92. The interior of a coffee-house. Two young men in regimentals stand near the fireplace (left); one, whose broken sword lies on the ground, is being threatened with a hot poker held to his nose by a man in riding-dress, who holds the lapel of his coat. The other with his sword attacks from behind the man with the poker, but is held back by a customer and a waiter. Two bystanders hold up their hands in alarm. A parson seated at a table holding a newspaper watches the fray. Behind is the bar, within which stands a young woman much alarmed. Over its arched alcove is inscribed 'Orgeat, Jellies &c.'; glasses, bottles, &c, are ranged on shelves. On the wall is a map inscribed 'Pacific Ocean'. A wall-clock points to 1.30. In the background (left) is a glass door of the coffeehouse; by it stands a waiter with a coffee-pot; a customer raises his stick threateningly as if to strike him.


Two young ensigns have insulted the company, and especially the young woman in the bar, by the grossness of their talk. On being reproved they demanded satisfaction; an altercation arose, swords were drawn, and the man making the reproof defended himself with a red-hot poker. 1 April 1784


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Depicted people Illustration to: Thomas Holcroft (editor)
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 196 millimetres
Width: 240 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1872,1109.324
Notes

This print is related to "A Preservative against Duelling", which appears in letterpress in the text of "The Wit's Magazine", pp. 89-92.

For William Blake's prints for "The Wit's Magazine", etched after designs by Thomas Stothard and Samuel Collings, see 1872,1109.322-26 and J,7.6.

Another impression of this print is in a scrapbook in the British Museum collection, reg. no. 1979,1110.25 (not yet catalogued on-line, as of 12th July 2004). The impression has been cut in two, the left and the right halves pasted into different pages of the scrapbook.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-1109-324
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