IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117845
accession number:	M.260-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 29 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Single vellum leaf, painted in bodycolour, showing "The Infant Moses treading on the Crown of Pharaoh"; the reverse is black with light gilding.  The sticks and guards are of ivory, pierced and carved and strengthened at the head with mother-of-pearl.
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/117845

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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painting

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1720 - 1720
creation date earliest:	1720
creation date latest:	1720
culture:	18th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown