IDENTIFIERS
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id:	204927
accession number:	M.357 & A-2015

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 30 July 2015
updated:	Wednesday 15 May 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan depicting Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.  In the centre is a medallion in green paint with gold sequins. To the left and right are pink and green medallions with gilt decoration flowers.  The reserves with an oval of a flower spray and chains of blossom in green and pink. 
Stipple engraving in brown and hand painted reserves and border on ivory sticks.  After Beauclerk, who painted a portrait of the Duchess, which was printed in mezzotint by Robert Laurie in 1779.

In original card box with trade label.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Lennox Boyd Estate.  Christie's no. 13


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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204927





CATEGORIES
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category: fan

DATING
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creation date:	1780 - 1780
creation date earliest:	1780
creation date latest:	1780
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Clarke & Co