IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117844
accession number:	M.259-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
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/117844

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:	1830 - 1835
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1835
culture:	19th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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The Art of John Martin
Illustrations of the Bible
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