The gallery contains images of fans and fan-leaves available from the following museum online databases: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Fitzwilliam Museum (Oxford), British Museum (London), Museum of London (London), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles). Where appropriate, additional visual evidence of related photographs to the objects collected have been added (these are listed under “Visual Evidence 2” in the data collection template-see link below).
The dating ranges from 1500 to 1800. The majority of the objects represented in the gallery have Italy as their place of production. In addition, objects produced in England, France, the Netherlands and China (for the European market) have also been included in the gallery.
Download the template below to get detailed information on the objects collected in the image gallery:
Data collection template: IP-01 FAN (from IP1 FAN 1 to IP1 FAN 119)
Browse the image gallery below for visual sources on fans. A full description of visual sources on fans in the gallery is available here.