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1830s
Object Place: England
Medium/Technique
Paper/skin leaf, lithographed, stenciled, and painted in gouache; bone sticks decorated with silver leaf; brass
Dimensions
Guard: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.); maximum open: 44 cm (17 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Oldham Collection
Accession Number1976.251
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionLeaf: paper recto, skin verso. Obverse: pastoral scenes, man and three women left watching man and three women in boat center, man in boat and man with four women on shore right; stylized gilt band at top. Reverse: three gilt sprays, center one with red berries and two polychrome birds; gilt vine border, narrow gilt band at top. Pierced bone sticks decorated with silver leaf and gilt; guards decorated with brass in vegetative design.
ProvenanceGift of Esther Oldham to MFA, June 9, 1976.