How you can use this image
This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).
Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.
The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.
Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
Folding fan, the sticks carved, painted and gilded with classical urns, floral motifs and several characters associated with the Comedia dell Arte, such as Harlequin. The leaf is painted with the piazza san Marco showing scenes characteristic of the last days of Carnival with groups of figures sporting traditional masked costumes and enjoying some of the entertainments offered during Party season. On the far right, a group of men form a human pyramid in a game known as 'La Forza d'Ercole' or 'Hercules Labours', the slightest figure surmounting the formation and waving a white flag as a marker of success. At the opposite side of the square, a woman moves toward the entrance of a curious box-shaped contraption on stilts – probably a camera obscura.
The Fan Museum
London
Title
St Mark's Square, Venice
Date
c.1760
Medium
ivory, gouache & watercolour on skin
Measurements
H 31 x W (?) cm
Accession number
HA1300
Acquisition method
purchased privately by the owner, Mrs H. E. Alexander
Work type
Watercolour
The Fan Museum
12 Crooms Hill, London, Greater London SE10 8ER England
-
Abstract Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust -
Clifton Grove, Nottingham Nottinghamshire Archives -
Mr John Mavor (?) Quadrant, North Tyneside Council -
George Young, Mayor of Berwick-upon-Tweed (1868–1869 & 1873–1874) Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Hall -
Château and Garden Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust -
Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman Stockport Heritage Services -
Maria Theresa, Countess of Shrewsbury (1795–1856) Ingestre Hall Residential Arts Centre - 34,837 more