Battaglia del Re Tessi e del re Tinta, 1619, an engraving of a handscreen after Jacques Callot showing a mock battle between the companies of weavers and dyers on the Arno - 9in. x 11.5in., 17th century

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Battaglia del Re Tessi e del re Tinta, 1619, an engraving of a handscreen after Jacques Callot showing a mock battle between the companies of weavers and dyers on the Arno - 9in. x 11.5in., 17th century

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An unrecorded state with Chez N. Bonnart removed. Callot's original (Lieur 302) Russell 67 is known to have been mounted as a fan according to the chronicler Cesare Tinghi who is quoted in the catalogue Ventagli Italiani, Florence 1990 as saying that the Grand-Duke Cosimo II had ordered cinquecento roste o ventarole in forma ovata" to be distributed at festivities, see Print Quarterly VIII 1991, p.316, Fans, Christopher Lennox-Boyd