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The 'Ashton Botanical' or 'Botanical Orders' Fan
Maker: Ashton, Sarah
Double paper leaf printed and hand-coloured, inscribed 'Published as the Act directs July 21st, 1792, by Sarah Ashton... Little Britain.'; on the reverse are details of the numbered items, and lines from Erasmus Darwin's 'The Botanic Garden'. The sticks and guards are of polished laburnum wood.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1792
Sticks, Guards
composed of
wood
( laburnum)
Leaf
composed of
paper
Guards
Length 25.7 cm
Accession number: M.225-1985
Primary reference Number: 117810
Old catalogue number: DR 11/171
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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