IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 204979 accession number: M.407-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 3 August 2015 updated: Wednesday 15 May 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fan showing Jacques Necker, the Finance Minister of France until the Revolution in 1789. With a central panel depicting an oval of Jacques Necker, held by triumphal angels and set beneath a sunburst. The reserves with the verses to a song 'Air D'Asparie', the whole with stencilled surround. Hand coloured wood cut, on wooden sticks. French wood cut fans are rare. title: fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 292 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/204979 CATEGORIES ------ category: fan DATING ------ creation date: 1788 - 1788 creation date earliest: 1788 creation date latest: 1788 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown