An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet., Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes., Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112., and Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation
A print with the rules of the card game Faro engraved with decorative motifs across top edge. The print has been mounted on sticks of bone to form a fan
Alternative Title:
Regles du pharaon
Description:
Titles in English and French from item., Text below English title: The game of faro is perhaps the most simple & at the same time the most entertaining of all the games of hazard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on bone sticks to form a fan., and Folded to 25 x 2 x 1.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act by J. Cock and J.P. Crowder, Wood Street, London
A heraldic fan leaf, a quick ready reference designed to interpret the status of British royalty and nobility with reasonable accuracy. Presumably the fan was intended as an accessory at the theatre, pleasure gardens and and other social events. The outer row contain heraldic charges beneath which are the crowns the Prince of Wales and various lesser crowned nobility; next are 'Distinction of Houses' and examples of 'Knight of the Garter' and 'Commoner & his Lady'; next are 'Points of Escutcheon', 'Metals & Colours', 'Furrs' interspersed with how to distinguish a Bishop from and a Baronet and lastly there is a row of division of the field, very helpfully distinguishing between those men who have had 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 wives and and an heiress and possibly the future number 8.
Description:
Title from dealer's description., "Enter'd at Stationers Hall"--Below imprint statement., Accompanied by a blank sheet of laid paper, cut to same size., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For variant states "Sold by by Wm. Cock, Fan Maker to the Dutchess of York at No. 50 Pall Mall and 55 St. Pauls Church Yard", see nos. 198 and 199 in the British Museum's Shreiber Collection of Fans and Fan-Leaves.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Feby. 11, 1792, by F. Martin & Co. and Sold by Sarah Ashton, Fan Maker, No. 28 Little Britain
