Folding fan, Mary Queen of Scots, escaping from Lochleven Castle

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Folding fan. Mary Queen of Scots, Escaping from Lochleven Castle. Unknown maker, France. Depicting the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle. Pale blue silk leaf, with a stipple printed in colour on fretted bone sticks. Circa 1785. Acquisition Credit: Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate.

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Accession Number: M.120-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 63
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 672 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 115.47kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2018:11:23 04:25:53

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