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Fan
1789–92
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Paper leaf, etched, engraved and painted in watercolor; bone sticks and washer
Dimensions
Guard: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.); maximum open: 50.5 cm (19 7/8 in.); arc: 160°
Credit Line
Oldham Collection
Accession Number1976.234
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDouble paper leaf. Wallpaper or dominotier-style fan printed with the words of a French Revolutionary song. Printed and hand-colored design of statue representing Liberty holding plummet and triangle in right hand, staff surmounted by Cap of Liberty and tablet inleft, on pedestal engraved "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Unité"; peasants dancing, offering flowers at sides; verses to air at outsides; border of red lines, silver vine and dots. Fourteen bone sticks.
ProvenanceGift of Esther Oldham to MFA, June 9, 1976.