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Collections

Folding Fancirca 1840

Not on view
Fully opened folding fan with dark wooden sticks and a cream paper leaf printed in cobalt blue, featuring a sequential alphabet along the upper arc and figures amid stylized trees below.
Title
Folding Fan
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1840
Medium
Printed paper leaf, wood sticks, metal button
Dimensions
Length (Length of guard): 6 1/4 in. (15.88 cm) Spread: 11 1/4 in. (28.58 cm) Length (Length of stick at shoulder): 2 3/16 in. (5.56 cm) Depth of leaf: 4 in. (10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Mrs. Alice F. Schott Bequest
Accession Number
M.67.8.117
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Blanco F., José and Patricia Hunt-Hurst, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 2, The Federal Era Through the 19th Century. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.