IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117870
accession number:	M.285-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 July 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Assignat folding fan; double leaf of dark turquoise paper with gilt binding at the top, decorated with sixteen applied assignats, issued between 1792 and 1795.  Sticks and guards of wood (20+2), the latter strengthened with bone at the rivet end; steel rivet.
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/117870

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:	1795 - 1796
creation date earliest:	1795
creation date latest:	1796
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	First Republic (Directory)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Paris, City of Revolution
title:	From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
CITATIONS
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Paris, City of Revolution
Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection
Les Assignats et les Papiers-Monnais emis par l'état au XVIIIe Siècle
From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution
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