Fashion — 1887
Fan
Fan with leaf of cream silk gauze painted with picture of dog standing on steps outside his cavelike 'home' with the words, 'there's no place like Home!'. Smoked mother-of-pearl guards and smoked mother-of-pearl and pierced ivory sticks. Sticks are ivory along leaf, mother of pearl below, glued together at leaf bottom edge. Picture signed: "Helen 1887".
Painted and given by the Duchess of Albany to Queen Victoria, Christmas 1887.
- Category:
- Fashion
- Object ID:
- 82.60/13
- Object name:
- fan
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Duchess of Albany, Princess Helena of Waldeck
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- Production date:
- 1887
- Material:
mother-of-pearl, ivory, silk, paint, metal
- Measurements/duration:
- H 375 mm, W 30 mm, D 60 mm
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 80%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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- License this image:
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