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Folding fan, Mary Queen of Scots, escaping from Lochleven Castle

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An image of Folding fan. Mary Queen of Scots, Escaping from Lochleven Castle. Unknown maker, France. Depicting the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle. Pale blue silk leaf, with a stipple printed in colour on fretted bone sticks. Circa 1785. Acquisition Credit: Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate.

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Folding fan. Mary Queen of Scots, Escaping from Lochleven Castle. Unknown maker, France. Depicting the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle. Pale blue silk leaf, with a stipple printed in colour on fretted bone sticks. Circa 1785. Acquisition Credit: Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate.

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  • Accession Number: M.120-2015
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/20.0
  • Focal length: 63
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 672 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 115.47kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 20/1
  • Captured: 2018:11:23 04:25:53

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18th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _wf_lennoxboyd _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending bone costume escape exiled fan fans female Fitz_AA folding fan French fretted fretting guard sticks horses lady Lennox Boyd Lochleven Castle Mary I of Scotland Mary Queen of Scots Mary Stuart Mary, Queen of Scots queen royal royalty Scotland Scottish sequinned sequins silk stipple stippling woman

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