Les Quatre Especes: M.369-2015

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Titles

Les Quatre Especes

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

Folding fan

Categories

Fan

Description

Folding fan showing 'the four species'. Depicting Cupid and a young man beside an easel displaying advice. The reserves with four scenes showing a rogue, a gentleman, a lover, and a cad, with appropriate verse between each scene.
Hand coloured etching on wooden sticks and guards. Guard sticks with bone filet and upper edge

Notes

History note: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 55

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 1785

Components of the work

Sticks, Guards composed of wood
Guard Filet composed of bone
Leaf

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.369-2015
Primary reference Number: 204939
Sale number: 55
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Friday 31 July 2015 Updated: Wednesday 15 May 2019

Associated departments & institutions

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

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