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Dueling

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  • Two gentlemen duelling with pistols. Etching, 1823.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A woman is holding her dying lover; a sword lying at his feet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
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    A duel on horseback between Alvar Sánchez and Gonzalo Gomez, watched by Doña Lambra: Alvar Sánchez is killed. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. Vaenius.

    Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629. | Reference: 42729i
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    A woman is holding her dying lover; a sword lying at his feet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.

    Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. | Date: 1812/1888 | Reference: 567176i
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    Abel Drugger, from Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist', in a posture of combat. Engraving by J. Thornthwaite, 1777, after Roberts.

    Roberts, fl. 18th century. | Date: 1791 | Reference: 36891i
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    Men and violence : gender, honor, and rituals in modern Europe and America / edited by Pieter Spierenburg.

    | Date: [1998], ©1998
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    Du suicide considéré aux points de vue philosophique, religieux, moral et médical, suivi de quelques réflexions sur le duel / Par P.-J.-C. Debreyne.

    Debreyne, Pierre Jean Corneille, 1786-1867. | Date: 1847
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