Fan leaf, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Great Britain, 1730
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1730
Leaf of fan with engraving depicting festivities at the Vauxhall Gardens, verso, and a vignette verso, c. 1730. Paper fan leaf with a steel engraving depicting Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. In the centre is the balconied orchestra with musicians playing, flanked by open supper boxes where diners are eating.
The crowd covers different levels of society with a fashionable young couple saluting a gentleman at the end of the avenue of trees, a schoolmaster or priest further up the avenue, a young mother with her child standing below the orchestra, and to the left, a waiter picking up a chicken that he has dropped.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Steel engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Length: 30.3 cm; Width: 55.8 cm
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Great Britain
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O1138562
- Museum object name
- Fan leaf
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- S.123-1997
- Museum system number
- O1138562
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.