English folding fan painted with scenes

Folding Fan. English, unknown maker. Front: In the middle a young mother kneels in profile, holding out her arms to a small boy standing in front of her. Landscape background with distant hills, a lake or river and buildings. Gilt scroll border on the left, upper and right sides. Reverse: A floral spray in red, pink, green and gold. Sticks and guards: Oriental style plants, a pavillion by a tree and criss-cross diaper. The green lacquer and design stops short of the head. Reverse plain wood. Double paper leaf stipple printed, painted in water-colours and gilt. Gold paper binding on the upper edge. Sticks and guards of wood, lacquered green and gilt, the head of the latter strengthened with ivory (18+2). Rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. Length, guards, 25.6 cm, 1809. Notes: The source of the design was an engraving by M.N. Bate after Adam Buck (1759-1833) entitled 'Step by Step' in the series 'The Progress of Human Life'. It was printed by Ackerman, 101, Strand, London.

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• Accession Number: M.326-1985
• Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Aperture: f/20.0
• Focal length: 80
• Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
• Photographer name: Katie Young
• Image height: 639 pixels
• Image width: 1024 pixels
• Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
• Filesize: 592.00kB
• Exposure time: 1/30
• ISO Speed: 100
• Fnumber: 20/1
• Captured: 2015:03:09 15:30:11

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