The ancient fans can be divided painted and printed fans. The quality of European fans produced between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries depends very much on their painted decoration. This is rare miniature mica fan dating from the late 17th century and painted with European lover in a landscape (fig. 12).
Figure 12, a rare miniature mica fan dating from the late 17th century and painted with European lovers in a landscape.
The fashion for printed fan leaves first arose in England, towards the end of the 1720s. Printed fans depicted a whole variety of topics, and most of them are great fun; there maps of counties, perpetual almanacks, celebrating or memory events from contemporary history. For example, the bellow racing fan showed in grater detail the name of the owners, the names of the horses-including Gladiateur, Blink Bonny and their sires and dams, and jockeys-such as Wells and Custance-who rode them to victory.
Figure 13, Print fan. Printed fans were produced cheaply and quickly. No number is limited, in some cases only few numbers, in other cases there were hundreds.
Figure 12, a rare miniature mica fan dating from the late 17th century and painted with European lovers in a landscape.
The fashion for printed fan leaves first arose in England, towards the end of the 1720s. Printed fans depicted a whole variety of topics, and most of them are great fun; there maps of counties, perpetual almanacks, celebrating or memory events from contemporary history. For example, the bellow racing fan showed in grater detail the name of the owners, the names of the horses-including Gladiateur, Blink Bonny and their sires and dams, and jockeys-such as Wells and Custance-who rode them to victory.
Figure 13, Print fan. Printed fans were produced cheaply and quickly. No number is limited, in some cases only few numbers, in other cases there were hundreds.
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