IDENTIFIERS
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id:	204969
accession number:	M.397-2015

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 3 August 2015
updated:	Wednesday 15 May 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan after the French design 'La Mort de Monsieur Malbrouk'.  Depicting the Duke of Marlborough taking leave of his wife.  The left reserve with a messenger arriving with the news, and the right showing the tomb. The reverse with sheet music and verses for 'The Celebrated Marlborough Song', translated from the French.
Hand coloured etching on pierced bone sticks and guards.

Lacking some part guards and sticks.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Lennox Boyd Estate.  Christie's no. 237


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/204969





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: Unknown