IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117834
accession number:	M.249-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double paper leaf, hand-coloured with applied mezzotint.  The central section of the front shows three seperate group scenes and the reverse, a smaller scene of a grape harvest.  The bone sticks and guards are pierced, carved, silvered, gilt and painted; the upper section of the guard has additional decoration of gilt metal and, on the obverse only, a framed mirror.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Messel-Rosse Collection
creditline: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117834

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint
TECHNIQUES
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hand colouring

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1850 - 1880
creation date earliest:	1850
creation date latest:	1880
culture:	19th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown