Details
A Grand Tour fan
the chickenskin leaf painted with Vesuvius errupting by night, with travellers and a monument in the foreground, inscribed in Italian Terribile Eruzzione del Monte Vesuvio ...8 Augusto 1779 and two smaller vignettes of entrances to caves, the inscriptions illegible, the mother of pearl sticks finely carved with Chinese figures, with ivory guardsticks - 10in. (28cm.), Italian, 1779
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the chickenskin leaf painted with Vesuvius errupting by night, with travellers and a monument in the foreground, inscribed in Italian Terribile Eruzzione del Monte Vesuvio ...8 Augusto 1779 and two smaller vignettes of entrances to caves, the inscriptions illegible, the mother of pearl sticks finely carved with Chinese figures, with ivory guardsticks - 10in. (28cm.), Italian, 1779
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Provenance
Given to vendor by her grandmother Augusta Stefani, nee Marker
Augusta Marker decended from Archdeacon Thackery, Headmaster of Harrow School 1693 - 1760. Her husband Frederico Stafani, d. 1897, was Director of the State Archives in Venice
Augusta Marker decended from Archdeacon Thackery, Headmaster of Harrow School 1693 - 1760. Her husband Frederico Stafani, d. 1897, was Director of the State Archives in Venice