The "Seventh Plague of Egypt" Fan
Maker: Unknown
Double leaf of paper backed with chickenskin ?, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Gold paper binding on upper edge. Sticks and guards of shaped, pierced and engraved/etched mother-of-pearl (15+ 2). Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. Front: The Seventh Plague of Egypt after the painting of 1823 by John Martin (1789-1854). To right and left, wide borders of gilt flowers and foliage, extending in narrower sprays to meet in the middle of the lower edge. At the top there is a central border of fringes flanked by stylized leaves. Reverse: In the middle, painted in colours, a Nile landscape with temples and a camel, flanked by floral sprays in gold, black and red. Left, upper and right borders of stylized foliage with a flower in the upper corners, painted in gold. Sticks: Pierced with a man and woman flanked by plants and vases of flowers on trellises
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
19th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1830
CE
-
Circa
1835
CE
Leaf
composed of
paper
bodycolour
chicken skin
gilt
Sticks+guards+washer
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Rivet
composed of
steel
Guards
Length 21.8 cm
Sticks+guards
Accession number: M.259-1985
Primary reference Number: 117844
Old catalogue number: DR 23/295
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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