History of the FanRhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
History
History of the Fan
Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
Fans
‘The Humours of New Tunbridge Wells; being a Draught of the House,
Gardens, Well, Walks, etc., with the different Airs, Gestures, and
Behaviour of the Company, and all other rural Entertainments of the
Place. Taken from the Life: by an eminent Hand.’
‘July 2, 1737.
‘_This day is Published_
‘The new Vaux Hall Fan; or the rural Harmony and delightful Pleasures
of Vaux-Hall Gardens; with the different Air, Altitude, and Decorum
of the Company that frequent that beautiful place; done to its utmost
Beauty and Perfection.
‘Whereon is shewn the Walks, the Orchestra, the grand Pavillion, and
the Organ, which far excels any Thing of the kind yet offer’d to the
Publick.
‘Sold at Pinchbeck’s Fan Warehouse, etc.
‘Where may be had, The Dumb Oracle; and the Royal Repository, or
Merlin’s Cave; and all sorts of Fans of the newest Fashion, wholesale
or retail.’
[Illustration: The Trial of Warren Hastings.
Mr. W. Burdett-Coutts. M.P.]
[Illustration: The Parades of Bath, 1737.
Mr. W. Burdett-Coutts. M.P.]
In the interesting fan, giving, within a large cartouche, a view of the
Parades, and Old Assembly Rooms at Bath, 1737, Beau Nash appears in
the foreground in lilac coat, with a white hat under his arm,[158]
addressing a bevy of fashionable ladies; at the sides are floral and
diapered ornaments in the Chinese taste.
The example illustrated, which is coloured with extreme care, was
acquired by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts at the Walker sale in 1882.
This is the mount referred to by Pinchbeck in his advertisement of
‘June 3, 1738.
‘This day is Published on a Fan Mount (Fit for the Second Mourning or
in colours) An accurate and lively Prospect of the celebrated Grove
at Bath, whereon the rural Pleasures and exact Decorum of the company
are curiously represented, with some cursory Observations on the
Behaviour of Sundry Persons, particularly the famous B. N.
‘Likewise the rural Harmony and delightful Pleasures of Vaux-Hall
Gardens. Also the Royal Repository, or Merlin’s Cave; being an exact
Emblem of that beautiful Structure erected by the late Queen in the
Royal Gardens at Richmond.
‘Sold wholesale or retail at Pinchbeck’s Fan Warehouse, etc., by Mr.
Crowbrow, at the India House on the Walks: and at Mr. Dalassol’s and
Mr. Weakstead’s Shops in the Grove at Bath.’
Two fans were published in June 1757 by G. Speren, giving a view of the
interior of the Pump-Room at Bath, and the Orange Grove, with obelisk,
garden, and buildings.
Lady Charlotte Schreiber quotes the following advertisement which
appeared in the _Craftsman_ during this year:—
‘This day is publish’d, by Jonathan Pinchbeck, Fan-maker, at the Fan
and Crown in New Road-Court in the Strand, and sold by him Wholesale
and Retail.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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