An erotic jousting match, wherein a prostitute kneeling on a bed, her skirts pulled up to her waist and wearing a tall feather in her hair, vigorously handles at the same time the members of a thin man behind her at left, and a stout man in front of her at right, who angrily raise their fists to each other; on a mantelpiece at right, a statuette of a leering, bearded and bespectacled satyr playing the cello. Etching with stipple. Date: 1790-1810 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 157 mm (trimmed); Width: 193 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The rival knights or the Englishman in Paris. (BM 1977,U.525)
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