IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117919 accession number: M.334-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf, printed in black, painted in watercolours and gilt. The Taking of the Bastille titled 'Prise de la Bastille par les bourgeois et les braves Gardes Françaises de la bonne Ville de Paris, le 14 Juillet 1789. Dediée a la nation'. On the extreme left and right, six verses of a song to the 'Air la Bequille a barnaba', numbered 1 to 6, and flanking the central scene, captions for the numerals on it:' Mr. de Launay pris par le Grenadier et le Compon Horloger', 'Pavillon blanc', 'Maison de Mr Launay', 'Les Cuisines', 'premier pont-levi', 'grand pont levi'. Sticks and guards of pallisander wood (14+2), the guards are edged with bone and strengthened with bone at the rivet, which is made of steel. On the reverse, a small, green and red floral spray in the centre. title: folding fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117919 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1789 - 1789 creation date earliest: 1789 creation date latest: 1789 culture: 18th Century, Late# culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Paris, City of Revolution title: From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain CITATIONS -------- Paris, City of Revolution From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain ---