Botanical fan
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1792
This object is a printed paper fan mount titled 'Botanical fan', created in the United Kingdom in 1792. It is executed as an engraving on paper, designed in the curved, arc-like shape characteristic of an unmounted folding fan leaf.
The surface features an educational botanical composition against a light background. At the center is a cluster of flowering stems, flanked by various detailed diagrams illustrating botanical parts, plant structures, and floral dissections. Along the upper and lower borders run rows showing different types of leaves and foliage, accompanied by descriptive scientific text and labels. The maker of this engraved paper fan mount is unrecorded. It was acquired by the museum in 1938 and is catalogued under museum number E.3191-1938.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Engraving on paper
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Unknown
- Place recorded
- United Kingdom
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Botanical fan
- Museum object number
- E.3191-1938
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.