Lot Essay
Probably Lady Winifred Constable d. 1801, grand-daughter of the 5th Earl of Nithsdale. She would have been, after 1776, Lady Herries but for her grandfather's attainder
Details
A fan, the leaf painted in tones of blue with a little boy flying a kite, a harvest woman and a sportsman with a shotgun, a pointer and a standing partridge, the verso with a landscape in tones of blue, the ivory sticks pierced and painted with blue flowers - 10in (27cm.), French, circa 1770 - in fan box by Clarke, Fan Maker No. 45 Ludgate Hill inscribed Lady Herries, 14 Bolton Street
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