Description

Garde de l’Espadonneur. Figure A. Garde Dêfensive du Pointeur. Figure B. by James Gwin printed on a T-Shirt

About the T-Shirt

The Unisex Staple T-Shirt feels soft and light with just the right amount of stretch. It’s comfortable and flattering for all. We can’t compliment this shirt enough–it’s one of our crowd favorites, and it’s sure to be your next favorite too! 

• Solid colors are 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
• Ash color is 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
• Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
• Athletic and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
• Heather Prism colors are 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz./yd.² (142 g/m²)
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• 30 singles
• Side-seamed construction
• Tear-away label
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Blank product sourced from Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, or the US

James Gwin (1720 – 1769)

James Gwim or Gwin was an Irish artist.
James Gwim or Gwinn or Gwin was born in County Kildare around 1700. He first worked as a coach-painter before taking up engraving in Dublin. For a large part of his career he was employed by the Dublin publisher George Grierson. Around 1755, Gwim left Dublin for London where he was employed as a designer of snuff-box lids at the Battersea Enamel Works which was managed by John Brooks.

Gwim is recorded as an eccentric man, who devoted his spare time to study science and mathematics, and lived in seclusion. He lived in lodgings at an alehouse in Westminster, Three Tuns, and later in the Buffalo in Bloomsbury where he shared his lodging with Brooks for a period. He would refuse to leave his room, with a servant leaving his meals at his door. A fellow Irish artist, Charles Spooner, had a bet with Gwim to try to coerce him into leaving his room, during which a fight broke out between them and they both rolled down the stairs. Two weeks after this, on 26 April 1769, Gwim was found dead in his room.