Fan leaf adorned with botanical designs

Publisher Sarah Ashton British

1792

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Scientific instruction is the intent of this fan design. A range of leaf types, each carefully identified, are arrayed along the upper and lower borders, with looping vines adorning the ends. The interior space displays blooming flowers, together with a variety of floral reproductive mechanisms. A printed and numbered guide, on a second sheet affixed to the back of this one, could have been consulted by the user once the papers were mounted as a fan.

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Title: Fan leaf adorned with botanical designs
Publisher: Sarah Ashton (British, active London 1770–98)
Date: 1792
Medium: Etching, hand colored
Dimensions: Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Object Number: 60.572
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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