IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117942 accession number: M.358-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 April 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Woven gut panels mounted on concealed frames, decorated with feathers of the purple-breasted cotinga (cotinga amabilis) and other birds; stick of turned wood. The fan is composed of five separate sections of drawn thread work on concealed frames. The frames are covered with feathers in bands of different colours and there is a border to each section of more feathers. The central scenes of flowers and birds are composed of feathers and stitched into place on applied fabric grounds and are different on each side. The whole is mounted on a turned, wooden handle. title: screen fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard Messel (d. 1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (d. 1992) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117942 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne SUBJECTS ------------------- bird flower bird flower CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1665 - 1665 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1665 culture: 17th Century, second half# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Fashion and Fancy Dress. The Messel Family Dress Collection 1865-2005 CITATIONS -------- Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection A Collector's History of Fans Fantasy in Plume and Parchment, European Fans from the Leonard Messel Collection The Art of the Fan The Fan Une des plus belles collections d'eventails du monde Waaiers The History of the Fan A Flutter of Fans Unique Feather Fan Three Very Inportant Feather Fans: The Westrow Mexican-Indian Feather-Mosaic Fan, The Messel Fan and the 19th Century One Feathers Fashion Fans A Family of Fashion, The Messels: Six Generations of Dress --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/19/large_M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/19/mid_M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.358-1985_1_200910_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/19/preview_M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/19/M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/25/large_M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1308 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/25/mid_M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 639 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.358-1985_2_200910_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/25/preview_M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/25/M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5119 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/682/large_M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1443 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/682/mid_M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 704 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/682/M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 4856 pixels width: 3447 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/682/preview_M_358_1985_1_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 352 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/683/large_M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1439 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/683/mid_M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 703 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.358-1985_2_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/683/preview_M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/683/M_358_1985_2_200910_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 4957 pixels width: 3528 pixels