Details
A printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of an allegory of a Peace Treaty, probably the Treaty of Aix 1747 with the monarchs of the countries involved seated around a table, with heralds at a balcony holding a scroll inscribed Articles of Peace, and classical portraits beyond numbered for a key and an orange tree in the foreground, the verso with a woman carrying a basket on her head, standing by ruins, the ivory sticks carved and pierced - 11in., English, circa 1747 (two folds split and one stick repaired)
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