IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117821
accession number:	M.236-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double paper leaf printed in black and painted in water-colours.  Gold paper binding on upper edge.  Sticks and guards of wood (18+2).   Brass ? rivet with bone or ivory washer.  Front:  The leaf is divided into five vertical panels. In the central panel, flanked by groups of 4 cards, there is an oval coloured print of a gypsy wearing a bonnet and holding a pack of cards, with below 'The New/WOBURN or BEDFORD/(GYPSY FAN)/for 1805', and above instructions for fortune telling.   Running down the left side of the two panels on the left and the right of the two panels on the right are the suits of cards with the Kings at the top.  Beside each card there is a statement about the character or future of the chooser of that card.   The left, lower and right edges have borders of black zigzag painted pink.  Reverse: 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/117821

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:	1805 - 1805
creation date earliest:	1805
creation date latest:	1805
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Tempus, The Art of Time
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