Assemblee des Etats du Brabant...1787, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching with portraits of M. de Cock Pensionnaire des Etats de Brabant and M.Herni Nicolas Vandernoot, with verses of songs by Mmes. M and P de Bruxelles, verso inscribed in manuscript josephfin allard, with wooden sticks with bone filets - 11in. (28cm.), 1787

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Assemblee des Etats du Brabant...1787, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching with portraits of M. de Cock Pensionnaire des Etats de Brabant and M.Herni Nicolas Vandernoot, with verses of songs by Mmes. M and P de Bruxelles, verso inscribed in manuscript josephfin allard, with wooden sticks with bone filets - 11in. (28cm.), 1787
See Illustration Plate D

Provenance

Probably Duchet with manuscript no.8

Lot Essay

The estates of Brabant strongly opposed the reforms of the Emperor Joseph II especially the Edict of Toleration and his attempts to deal with clerical abuses. On the 27th December 1789 the Estates declared their independance under the influence of Vandernoot
This rare fan is not in the Schreiber collection.
Another printed fan on the revolution Brabanconne was lent by Mme. Pigeolet-Evenepoel to the Exposition National de 1880 in Brussels as item 296

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