Caption:
Portrait of Domenico Angelo (1717-1802), Italian sword and fencing master. Also known as Angelo Domenico Malevolti Tremamondo. Taught fencing to gentlemen including royalty, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, David Garrick, Casanova and the Chevalier d'Eon at his School of Arms. Angelo himself posed for the illustrations. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Mr. Domenico Angelo's The School of Fencing, London, 1787