Fan Leaf
ca. 1730 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Leaf of fan with engraving depicting festivities at the Vauxhall Gardens, verso, and a vignette verso, c. 1730.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Steel engraving on paper |
| Brief description | Fan leaf depicting Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, steel engraving on paper, made in Britain, ca. 1730 |
| Physical description | Paper fan leaf with a steel engraving depicting Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. In the centre is the balconied orchestra with musicians playing, flanked by open supper boxes where diners are eating. The crowd covers different levels of society with a fashionable young couple saluting a gentleman at the end of the avenue of trees, a schoolmaster or priest further up the avenue, a young mother with her child standing below the orchestra, and to the left, a waiter picking up a chicken that he has dropped. |
| Credit line | Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996 |
| Place depicted | |
| Summary | Leaf of fan with engraving depicting festivities at the Vauxhall Gardens, verso, and a vignette verso, c. 1730. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.123-1997 |
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| Record created | October 20, 2009 |
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