IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117792
accession number:	M.207-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 19 July 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double paper leaf, printed in black and painted in water-colours.  Ivory sticks and guards (18+2), the former pierced.  Rivet with brass ? washer
Front:  On the left, George II, seated on a throne under a canopy, and attended by a guard, gives an audience to a man who kneels in front of him holding a petition entitled 'Free/Trade/and Na/vigation'.   In  the centre, the British fleet approaches a fort and town, probably Portobello in the Isthmus of Darien (Panama).  On the right, a gentleman hands out coins while another looks into a trunk of plate.  Signed on left side of leaf 'S. Clark 1740'.
Reverse:  Undecorated.  Sticks:  Pierced with simple stylized plant motifs.  Guards:  Undecorated.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)


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:	Messel-Rosse Collection
creditline: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117792

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1740 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1740
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Waaiers
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