Lot Essay
For further information on this fan, please see Caroline Dakers' essay Clubs, cliques and collaborations: artistic friendships in Victorian London in Session II.
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A sandalwood brisé autograph fan, decorated by various artists, including Hilda Montalba (fl. 1873-1903, d. 1919), Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R.A. (1843-1927), Alfred William Parsons, R.A. (1847-1920), George Henry Boughton, R.A. (1833-1905), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (1836-1912), Lady Laura Alma-Tadema (1852-1909), George Du Maurier (1834-1896), Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910), Harry Furniss (fl. 1854-1925), Hon. John Collier (1850-1934), Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928), Sir Samuel Henry William Llewelyn, P.R.A. (1858-1941), Marianne Stokes (1855-1927), John Singer Sargent, R.A. (1856-1925), Adrian Scott Stokes, R.A. (1854-1935) and others (recto) and signed by various actors, artists, authors and impressarios including Harry Plunkett Green, Leonard Yorwick, Frank Davies, Edward Lloyd, J.J. Pater, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ludwig Straus, Alfredo Piatty, Pablo de Sarasate, Joseph Joachin, Charles Hallé, Norma Neruda, Ellen Terry, Frederick Terry, Henry Kissing, Marion Terry and others (verso)
Details
A sandalwood brisé autograph fan, decorated by various artists, including Hilda Montalba (fl. 1873-1903, d. 1919), Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R.A. (1843-1927), Alfred William Parsons, R.A. (1847-1920), George Henry Boughton, R.A. (1833-1905), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (1836-1912), Lady Laura Alma-Tadema (1852-1909), George Du Maurier (1834-1896), Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910), Harry Furniss (fl. 1854-1925), Hon. John Collier (1850-1934), Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928), Sir Samuel Henry William Llewelyn, P.R.A. (1858-1941), Marianne Stokes (1855-1927), John Singer Sargent, R.A. (1856-1925), Adrian Scott Stokes, R.A. (1854-1935) and others (recto) and signed by various actors, artists, authors and impressarios including Harry Plunkett Green, Leonard Yorwick, Frank Davies, Edward Lloyd, J.J. Pater, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ludwig Straus, Alfredo Piatty, Pablo de Sarasate, Joseph Joachin, Charles Hallé, Norma Neruda, Ellen Terry, Frederick Terry, Henry Kissing, Marion Terry and others (verso)
with portrait studies, boats, lillies, a sand timer, a jester, a mouse and a candle, a caricature and two studies of a baby in pen and ink, one in pencil, one heightened with bodycolour, framed and glazed
11 in. (28 cm.)
with portrait studies, boats, lillies, a sand timer, a jester, a mouse and a candle, a caricature and two studies of a baby in pen and ink, one in pencil, one heightened with bodycolour, framed and glazed
11 in. (28 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's South Kensington, 11 November 1980, lot 21, when acquired by the present owner.
Exhibited
Beauty's Awakening, 1984, no. 440.
Joseph Farquharson, 1985.
L'Eventail à tous vents, 1989, no. 146.
Joseph Farquharson, 1985.
L'Eventail à tous vents, 1989, no. 146.
Special notice
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