Fencing match between Mademoiselle la Chevaliere d’Eon de Beaumont and Monsieur de Saint George, at Carlton House, 1787. Famous fencing bout between transgender spy Chevalier d’Eon and the black Mozart, Joseph Bologne, mixed race son of a planter and an enslaved woman. Print after an engraving by Victor Marie Picot from an illustration by Charles Jean Robineau in Ralph Nevill’s Old Sporting Prints, The Connoisseur Magazine, London, 1908.

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