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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1830 - circa 1835; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, backing (textile), Double leaf of paper backed with chickenskin ?, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Gold paper binding on upper edge. Sticks and guards of shaped, pierced and engraved/etched mother-of-pearl (15+ 2). Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.; 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.259-1985]
Description: Double leaf of paper backed with chickenskin ?, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Gold paper binding on upper edge. Sticks and guards of shaped, pierced and engraved/etched mother-of-pearl (15+ 2). Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. Front: The Seventh Plague of Egypt after the painting of 1823 by John Martin (1789-1854). To right and left, wide borders of gilt flowers and foliage, extending in narrower sprays to meet in the middle of the lower edge. At the top there is a central border of fringes flanked by stylized leaves. Reverse: In the middle, painted in colours, a Nile landscape with temples and a camel, flanked by floral sprays in gold, black and red. Left, upper and right borders of stylized foliage with a flower in the upper corners, painted in gold. Sticks: Pierced with a man and woman flanked by plants and vases of flowers on trellises | 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=2nd quarter 19th century; start=1830; end=1835 | 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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