Fan, Hand
Name/Title
Fan, HandEntry/Object ID
G98.057Description
Fan with 16 (originally) medium brown, smooth wood sticks, 11” long; elaborately carved and pierced rose design. Guard stick is polished, and upper section backed with gilt paper. Short leaf lithographed with ‘classic’ scenes, hand colored, with hand painted gold flourishes or borders at top, bottom and sides, where ground color shades to medium greenish gray. Reverse of leaf is also printed with a smaller Elizabethan outdoor scene, colored like the front. Decorative gilt cast brass loop, mother of pearl rivet. Signed on reverse in fine ink script: Emma Fairbanks June 10th, 1865. A monument on the right front seems signed in the lithograph with a cypher for JP."Collection
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume CollectionCategory
Accessory, Adult, Female
Historic Costume