Hunting Party
Hunting Party
Hunting Party
Hunting Party
Hunting Party

Image credit: Rhian Cox / The Fan Museum

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Folding fan, the sticks carved, pierced and fretted with scrolling ornaments, floral motifs and figures in the ‘gorge’ (the term used to describe the central area of the sticks directly below the leaf). The leaf is painted on the recto with clusters of flowers and, in the centre, a scene of huntsmen in repose, carrying shotguns and accompanied by hounds and a horse.

The composition is an adaptation of an earlier mezzotint by printmaker John Smith (1652–1743) titled ‘The Fortune Teller’. Fan painters active in the eighteenth century frequently copied or adapted, to better suit the arc-shaped leaf, reproduction prints of popular paintings.

The Fan Museum

London

Title

Hunting Party

Date

c.1750

Medium

ivory, gouache & watercolour on paper

Measurements

H 26.5 x W (?) cm

Accession number

HA197

Acquisition method

purchased privately by the owner, Mrs H. E. Alexander

Work type

Watercolour

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