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Category |
fans |
Name |
folding fan |
Description | Double paper leaf, printed in black and painted in water-colours. Ivory sticks and guards (18+2), the former pierced. Rivet with brass ? washer Front: On the left, George II, seated on a throne under a canopy, and attended by a guard, gives an audience to a man who kneels in front of him holding a petition entitled 'Free/Trade/and Na/vigation'. In the centre, the British fleet approaches a fort and town, probably Portobello in the Isthmus of Darien (Panama). On the right, a gentleman hands out coins while another looks into a trunk of plate. Signed on left side of leaf 'S. Clark 1740'. Reverse: Undecorated. Sticks: Pierced with simple stylized plant motifs. Guards: Undecorated. |
Production Place | England (country) English (nationality) |
Technique Description | Double paper leaf, printed in black and painted in water-colours. Ivory sticks and guards (18+2), the former pierced. Rivet with brass ? washer |
Dimensions |
length: (guards): 24.4
cm |
Period | mid 18th Century |
Date | circa 1740 |
Provenance | bought: Anne, Countess of Rosse 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum |
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Other Notes | |
Accession Number | M.207-1985 (Applied Arts) |
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