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Fans: M0027

Title

Fan with list of subscribers to the boxes in the King's Theatre

Technique

Fan

Date

1788

Dimensions

Height: 34cm
Width: 61cm
Depth: 5cm

Other materials

Parchment with ivory sticks in gilded fan shaped box

Inscription/signature

"subscribers to the boxes at the King's theatre 1787 and 1788", "Publish'd as the Act Directs 1788", "H. Laurence, Pall Mall. Fan Maker.", "Strongitharm fc. Pall Mall" (inscri: recto); "PLAN OF THE BOXES IN THE KING'S THEATRE For the Years 1787 & 1788 (verso)

Provenance

Bequeathed to the Garrick Club by Carl Foreman, 1985

Other number

Gift 912

Exhibition history

29 July-31 December 2016, The Weird and the Wonderful:Entertaining Georgian Polite Society, Fairfax House, York

There is a list of subscibers and a plan of the boxes at the King's Theatre on the fan.
 
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