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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1795 - circa 1796; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, painting, Assignat folding fan; double leaf of dark turquoise paper with gilt binding at the top. Sticks and guards of wood (20+2), the latter strengthened with bone at the rivet end; steel rivet.; Acquisition: bought by Anne, Countess of Rosse, 1985-01-28, Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [M.285-1985]
Description: Assignat folding fan; double leaf of dark turquoise paper with gilt binding at the top, decorated with sixteen applied assignats, issued between 1792 and 1795. Sticks and guards of wood (20+2), the latter strengthened with bone at the rivet end; steel rivet. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | fans folding fan Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1795; end=1796 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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