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Screen fan: M.394-1985

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

Categories

Description

Cardboard, printed, applied with prints, and painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, puce pink, red, and brown, water-colours; turned wooden handle, with moss-green silk ribbon. One side is printed with a full-length portrait of Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Duchesse du Maine, with imprint below 'Tous les Portaicts de la Cour se trouvent chez N.R. .. ? ert fils rue St. Iaques à l'aigle', and below that, outside the frame, in script, 'Louise Benedicte de Bourbon, Duchesse du Maine.' On the reverse, at the top is a map of Asia, and below that three prints of characters from the Italian Comedy, entitled 'Le Docteur Baluardo', 'Isabelle', and 'Scaramouche'. The edge is painted bright red.

Notes

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

Legal notes

Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Measurements and weight

Height: 45.4 cm
Width: 26.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne

Dating

18th Century, Early#
Circa 1700 - Circa 1730

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of watercolour
Handle composed of wood
Ribbon composed of silk
Leaf composed of cardboard

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.394-1985
Primary reference Number: 117978
Old object number: 466
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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