Collection Highlights
Stained glass window
Date:
ca. 1656
Object Number:
1951.414c
Medium:
Glass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fixed fan
Object Number:
Z.1444
Date:
1820-1870
Medium:
Wood, cardboard, paper, paint, ribbon
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 1/2 x 10 x 3/8 in. ( 41.9 x 25.4 x 1 cm )
Marks:
printed: on obverse: "LE CHAR . . . TIER EMBOURBÉ."
printed: on reverse: "LE CHARTIER / EMBOURBÉ. / Extrait de la Fontaine Liv. VI. Fab. XVIII. / [etc.]"
printed: on reverse, below text: "à Paris ches F. Chereau rue St. Jacques aux deux Piliers d'Or.
Description:
Cardboard fixed fan with printed imagery and text; obverse with hand-tinted engraving depicting a man with a haywagon drawn of a pair of horses, with muscular deity looking down upon him from the sky; obverse with printed excerpt from a fable of La Fontaine; carved wooden handle.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
