drawing;
fan
- Museum number
- 1891,0713.304
- Description
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Mounted fan-leaf, with three views of ruins in Rome; from left to right, the Forum, the Capitol and the Colosseum; body of fan filled with classical grotesques and arabesques.
Watercolour on skin, mounted on white ivory sticks with metal ornaments
- Production date
- 1775-1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres (guard)
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Height: 130 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 510 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Edward Croft-Murray noted in the margin of the P&D copy of Cust's catalogue, "The leaf is definitely Italian, late XVIIIth century. The sticks probably French." This is now generally agreed.
A fan in the Royal collection (RCIN25073; see George III and Queen Charlotte, exhib. cat., 2004, no. 463), described as Italian, c. 1780, is closely related.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0713.304
