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Riverside Scene: M.212-2015

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Riverside Scene

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

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Description

Folding fan with a river scene. Depicting two girls pulling a boat along the bank, whilst two boys in the boat row in the opposite direction.
Paper leaf with an uncoloured etching, with the flesh in stipple printed in colour. On plain wood sticks and guards.

A leaf lacking one and a half folds

Notes

History note: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 368

Legal notes

Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (2015-04-27) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1795

Components of the work

Leaf composed of paper
Sticks, Guards composed of wood

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.212-2015
Primary reference Number: 204777
Sale number: 368
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Monday 27 July 2015 Updated: Wednesday 15 May 2019 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Riverside Scene" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204777 Accessed: 2024-11-02 16:30:41

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