Fan
1792
Object Place: London, England
Dimensions
Guard: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); maximum open: 46 cm (18 1/8 in.); arc: 155°
Accession Number
1976.178
Medium or Technique
Paper leaf etched, engraved and painted in watercolor; ivory sticks; mother-of-pearl
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Double paper leaf. Obverse: examples of botanical forms with scientific denominations, small flower bunches center, small branches and seed vessels to sides (numbers refer to descriptions on reverse), leaf forms at borders, imprint “Published as the Act directs, July 21, 1792, by Sarah Ashton, No.28 Little Britain, London.” Reverse: 24 orders of Botany listed, other technical information, poetry from “II Stanza, 4 Canto, Botanic Garden, V.I.” Eighteen plain ivory sticks, plain ivory guards, mother-of-pearl buttons on rivet.
Inscription
Published as the Act directs, July 21, 1792, by Sarah Ashton, No.28 Little Britain, London.
Provenance
Before 1976: collection DeWitt Clinton Cohen; by 1976: collection Esther Oldham; gift of Esther Oldham to the MFA, June 9, 1976.
Credit Line
Oldham Collection