Object Number: T9982

Collection: Social History

Object Name: fan, folding

Description: European painted and printed folding fan. Paper lead engraved, coloured with roughly drawn pierced ground. Obverse of partially completed engraving with country woman at a spring in regency costume. Reverse of small engraving with three girls/women in costume of c1810 feeding chickens. Covered and pierced ivory sticks and guards. Sticks from three different fans, one group with neoclassical columns, another with rococo scrolls and animals. Guards carved and oiled with design of a gardener with squirrel. Pivot of ivory and metal.