Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 Finish:none A preliminary balloon of this

A preliminary balloon of this type was flown at the Champ de Mars in Paris

Original is oil on canvas 79x91

from the south-east

The accompanying list of figures of the marine crustacean is headed: 'Hummereier aus verschiedenen Entwicklungsstadien' [Lobster eggs at various stages of development]

Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 Finish:none A preliminary balloon of this'Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787.' The Chevalier d'Eon (1728 1810) having a swordfight with Monsieur de Saint George. Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee Eon de Beaumont lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds],