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Fan
After: Sir Robert Strange (Scottish, active in England, 1721–1792)
1745
Object Place: England
Medium/Technique
Paper leaf, engraved and watercolored; carved ivory sticks; painted ivory guards
Dimensions
Guard: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.); maximum open: 50 cm (19 11/16 in.); arc: 115°
Credit Line
Oldham Collection
Accession Number1976.292
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionCommemorative fan of Prince Charles Edward Stuart claiming inheritance of English crown in the second Jacobite Rebellion (1745). Engraved and hand-painted paper leaf. Prince attended by Mars (Cameron of Lochiel) and Bellona (Flora MacDonald) center; Fame crowns Prince, altar blazing with devoted hearts, Venus and Cupid seated on cloud, Britannia seated in attitude of grief left; Jupiter scattering Hanoverian faction, Rapine and Murder prostrate right. Nineteen carved ivory sticks, chinoiserie design painted on guards.
ProvenanceGift of Esther Oldham to MFA, June 9, 1976.