IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117986 accession number: M.402-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan of double paper. Decorated with an oval reserve printed with five adults and a child around a statue, the base of which is inscribed 'LA LIBERTE. / PATRONE / Des Francais'. Hand coloured, dark turquoise, with some trompe l'oeil gems, the upper and lower part with a scroll border. Wooden sticks and guards. title: folding fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) 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/117986 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown