Details
A pierced ivory brise fan painted with an allegory of marriage thought to represent The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert with Religion and Hymen, the other cartouches with a couple in the characters of Fidelity and Constancy, the guardsticks with engraving gold plaques - 10.5in., circa 1786 (part of stick above left-hand cartouche replaced, probably in the 19th century, fragment of ivory missing from another stick); and a copy of the Catalogue of the Cabinet of Old Fans, the property of Mr. Robert Walker, plates, large 4to., half morocco, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1882, manuscript prices in margin in code
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See colour plate 6
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See colour plate 6
Provenance
Mr. Robert Walker, Uffington, Berkshire, sold Sotheby's, 8 June 1882, lot 61, for 18 guineas, to Mr. Maitland, a dealer
Colonel de Lancey
Sold Hotel Drouot, 8 - 12 April 1889, to Mr. Buissot
Collection Henin
Sold Hold Drouot, 13 December 1924, lot 266
Faucon
Sold Christie's South Kensington, Important Collection of Fans, 11 June 1991, lot 142
Colonel de Lancey
Sold Hotel Drouot, 8 - 12 April 1889, to Mr. Buissot
Collection Henin
Sold Hold Drouot, 13 December 1924, lot 266
Faucon
Sold Christie's South Kensington, Important Collection of Fans, 11 June 1991, lot 142
Literature
Rhead, p. 195
Buisson, Collection des eventails anciens des XVII et XVIII siecles, d'apres eventails authentiques Louis XIV, Louis V et Louis XVI, Paris, 1900, p. 195
There is a similar fan in the Messel-Rosse Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Traditionally said to have been painted by Richard Cosway who was patronised by both The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. Marie-Anne Smythe (1756-1837) married Edward Weld and later Thomas Fitzherbert (d.1781). She met the Prince in 1785 and they went through a form of marriage that December. As the marriage was invalid The Prince of Wales was able to marry Pricess Caroline of Brunswick in 1795
Buisson, Collection des eventails anciens des XVII et XVIII siecles, d'apres eventails authentiques Louis XIV, Louis V et Louis XVI, Paris, 1900, p. 195
There is a similar fan in the Messel-Rosse Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Traditionally said to have been painted by Richard Cosway who was patronised by both The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. Marie-Anne Smythe (1756-1837) married Edward Weld and later Thomas Fitzherbert (d.1781). She met the Prince in 1785 and they went through a form of marriage that December. As the marriage was invalid The Prince of Wales was able to marry Pricess Caroline of Brunswick in 1795