IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117930
accession number:	M.345-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan of puce double silk. Decorated in the centre with an applied mezzotint showing the Baptism of the King of Rome, on June 9th 1811. With gold sequins and frosted silver and gold stamped metal paillettes.
Sticks and guards of painted bone.
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/117930

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1811 - 1811
creation date earliest:	1811
creation date latest:	1811
culture:	19th Century, Early
culture:	Napoleon I

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown