IDENTIFIERS
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id:	205124
accession number:	M.60-2015

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 13 August 2015
updated:	Tuesday 26 October 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Paper leaf with a hand coloured etching, on the verso words and music. This fan records in words and pictures a French folk song that became popular during the early 1780s. It is a burlesque lament on the death of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722) who was wrongly thought to have died in battle in 1709. 
Paper leaf with a hand-coloured etching, on plain wooden sticks. Guard stick with bone filet and upper edge.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: The Lennox Boyd Collection.  Christies no. 50


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:	Lennox Boyd
creditline: Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from The Lennox Boyd Estate

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/205124





CATEGORIES
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category: fan

DATING
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creation date:	1780 - 1790
creation date earliest:	1780
creation date latest:	1790
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection