IDENTIFIERS
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id:	204979
accession number:	M.407-2015

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 3 August 2015
updated:	Monday 29 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fan showing Jacques Necker, the Finance Minister of France until the Revolution in 1789.  With a central panel depicting an oval of Jacques Necker, held by triumphal angels and set beneath a sunburst.  The reserves with the verses to a song &#039;Air D&#039;Asparie&#039;, the whole with stencilled surround.
Hand coloured wood cut, on wooden sticks.

French wood cut fans are rare.
title:	fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Lennox Boyd Estate.  Christie's no. 292


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/204979





CATEGORIES
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category: fan

DATING
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creation date:	1788 - 1788
creation date earliest:	1788
creation date latest:	1788
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown