Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850

385 Pages·2018·3.219 MB·English

by  Daniel O'Quinn, Alexis Tadie

SPORTING CULTURES, 1650–1850
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EDITED BY DANIEL O’QUINN
AND ALEXIS TADIÉ
Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
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© University of Toronto Press 2018
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vegetable-based inks.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Sporting cultures, 1650–1850 / edited by Daniel
O’Quinn and Alexis Tadié.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4875-0032-0 (cloth)
1. Sports – Social aspects – History – 18th century.
I. O’Quinn, Daniel, 1962–, editor II. Tadié, Alexis,
1963–, editor
GV706.5.S72 2017 306.4’8309033 C2017-903690-4
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts
Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Funded by the Financé par le
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
daniel o’quinn and alexis tadié
Part One: Classical Lineages
1 What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry,
1650–1800 21
frans de bruyn
2 Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence,
Authorial Encounters 49
daniel o’quinn
3 Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity 66
ashley l. cohen
Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses
4 Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751 93
richard nash
5 Animals as Heroes of the Hunt 114
sarah r. cohen
vi Contents
6 Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia
to Arabomania 136
philip dine
Part Three: The Mediation of Sports
7 Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau’s
Republican Theory 163
ourida mostefai
8 Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the
Confl icted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency 179
john whale
9 At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British
Mountaineering in the Romantic Period 196
simon bainbridge
Part Four: The Sporting Body
10 Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to
Eighteenth-Century Italy and France 219
laurent turcot
11 Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 236
sylvie kleiman-lafon
12 “The Physical Powers of Man”: The Emergence of
Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century 250
alexis tadié
13 What Is Training? 272
alexander regier
Coda – Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous
Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering 297
supriya chaudhuri
Bibliography 315
Contributors 347
Index 353
Illustrations
Plates (found following page 116)
1 Franz Josef Winter (copy after), Maria Amalia of Austria , Bayer.
Staatsgemäldesammlungen © ARTOTHEK.
2 “Position pour la garde en tierce et le coup de tierce. Plate 5.” from
L’Ecole des Armes by Domenico Angelo (London: R. & J. Dodsley,
1763), engraving by Charles Hall after James Gwin, Yale Center for
British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
3 “The D_ of [blank] playing at foils with her favourite Lap Dog
Mungo after Expending near 10,000 to make him a – ” (London
1773), engraving by William Austin. Courtesy of The Lewis
Walpole Library, Yale University.
4 Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Wolf Hunt , 1734, oil on canvas; Schwerin,
Staatliches Museum. Photo: bpk, Berlin/Staatliches Museum,
Schwerin/Elke Walford/Art Resource, NY.
5 Alexandre-François Desportes, Hound Stalking a Pheasant , between
1702 and 1742, oil on paper; Lille, Palais des Beaux-arts, dépôt de
la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Photo: author.
6 Oudry, Spaniel Seizing a Bittern , 1726, oil on canvas; Schwerin,
Staatliches Museum. Photo: bpk, Berlin/Staatliches Museum,
Schwerin/Elke Walford/Art Resource, NY.
7 Desportes, Self-Portrait as Hunter , 1699, oil on canvas; Paris, musée
du Louvre. Photo: ©RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY.
8 Desportes, Boar Attacked by Eight Dogs , 1702, oil on canvas;
Fontainebleau, musée national du château. Photo: ©RMN-Grand
Palais/Art Resource.
viii Illustrations
9a Claude III Audran and Desportes (attrib.), Designs for a Ceiling ,
c. 1698–99, gouache on gold ground; Paris, Musée des arts
décoratifs. Photo: Les Arts décoratifs, Paris/Jean Tholance.
Tous droits réservés.
9b Detail of Plate 9a.
10 Oudry (attrib.), Fragment of decorative painting , c. 1725, oil and
gold leaf on panel; Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs. Photo: Les
Arts décoratifs, Paris/Jean Tholance. Tous droits réservés.
11 Oudry, Bitch Nursing her Young , 1752, oil on canvas; Paris, Musée de
la chasse et de la nature. Photo: Nicolas Mathéus.
12 Théodore Géricault, Course de chevaux libres à Rome (1817).
13 Géricault, Cheval arabe gris blanc (before 1824) [Musée des
Beaux-Arts de Rouen].
14 Augustin Régis, La reddition d’Abd el-Kader, le 23 décembre 1847 .
[Musée Condé, Chantilly].
15 Hocine Ziani, Bataille de Kheng en-Natah (1984). [Musée central
de l’Armée, Alger].
16 Francis Hayman, See-Saw (1742). Tate Gallery. http://www.tate
.org.uk/art/artworks/hayman-see-saw-t00524.
Figures
3.1 “Seconde position du Salut. Plate 11.” from L’Ecole des Armes by
Domenico Angelo (London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1763), engraving by
Charles Hall after James Gwin, Yale Center for British Art, Paul
Mellon Collection. 70
3.2 “Signore Vestris Senr. in the character of the Prince in the
grand pantomime [sic] ballet (call’d) Ninnette à la Cour,”
published for Bell’s British Theatre (London, 1781), engraving by
J. Thornthwaite from drawing by James Roberts. From The New
York Public Library. 71
4.1 “A Print of the Chaise Match Run on New-market Heath.”
Engraving, 1750. 110
5.1 Jean Chabry after Oudry, Hyena Fighting a Dog , 1749–50, soft-
paste porcelain; Detroit Institute of Arts. Photo: Detroit Institute
of Arts, USA20449; Founders Society Purchase, Robert H.
Tannahill Foundation Fund; gifts from W. Hawkins Ferry, Henry
Ford II, Mr …/Bridgeman Images. 116
Illustrations ix
5.2 Desportes, Ponne, Bonne, and Nonne , 1702, oil on canvas; Paris,
musée de la chasse et de la nature, dépôt du Louvre. Photo:
Nicolas Mathéus. 119
5.3 Oudry, The English Fox , 1733; pen and point of brush and black
ink, grey wash, heightened with white tempera on blue paper;
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library. 126
5.4 Oudry, Head of a Setter , c. 1740, black and white chalk on blue
paper; Schwerin, Staatliches Museum. Photo: bpk, Berlin/
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin/Gabriele Bröcker/Art
Resource, NY. 128
12.1 “Indian Club Exercises,” Donald Walker, Walker's Manly
exercises (London: n.p., 1855), plate IV, page 22. 258
12.2 “Swimming-Action of the Feet,” Donald Walker, W alker's Manly
exercises (London: n.p., 1855), plate XXII, page 85. 260
13.1 “Single fi gure striking strait forward, before a looking glass,”
Art of Manual Defence , London: for G. Kearsley, 1799. 289