IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 204904 accession number: M.334-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 30 July 2015 updated: Wednesday 15 May 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Central panel of a young woman turning away from a young man who exits through a door, with her companion having text beneath: "I fan am like unto a Beau, I spread and flatter too and fro, As he is us'd in so am I, I'm played with all & then thrown by". The left reserve has an unsuspecting couple watched by a young woman passerby having text beneath: "Would you see and not be seen, Make your fan your friendly screan, Curiosity with Prudence mix, And wisely peep between ye sticks". The right reserve has a suitable gentleman proposing to a young woman with the text: "If a man of wealth should love me, With a better will repair me, But when Preferments provide lovers, Ladies always are the losers." Hand coloured etching, on bone sticks. title: fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 348 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Lennox Boyd creditline: Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204904 CATEGORIES ------ category: fan DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Bickham, George II