The Order of the Fan was instituted later by Louisa Ulrica, in 1744, for the ladies of the Swedish court, in which the sterner sex was afterwards included. [105] Letter 491, 8 Mai 1676. [106] Le Brun was appointed ‘premier peintre’ in 1662, with twelve thousand francs a year. [107] ... ‘Courant de belle en belle, Sous des lambris dorés et Vernis par Martin.’ [108] ‘Les cabinets où Martin A surpassé l’art de la Chine.’—VOLTAIRE. [109] Paul Mantz, _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_, vol. XX. [110] Translation by Henry Smith Wright, B.A. [111] ‘Pantins Méchanique,’ a performing figure worked by a string, much in vogue at this period. See _Engraved Fans of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries_, part i. page 226. [112] Henri Bouchot, ‘History on Fans’ (_Art and Letters_, vol. ii.). [113] A congratulatory address on this occasion was offered to the Queen by the market-women of Paris, written by M. de la Harpe on the inside of the fan of the spokeswoman, to which she repeatedly referred without the least embarrassment.—Henry F. Holt, _Journal of the Archæological Association_, vol. xxvi. [114] See _Engraved Fans of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries_, page 227. [115] _Menagiana._ [116] Pope had, nearly a century earlier, made allusion to the discontinuance of the fashion: ‘The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before.’ [117] Steevens. [118] See Italian fans, p. 109. [119] Agnes Strickland, _Lives of the Queens of England_. In most of the early engraved portraits of Catherine of Braganza, the Queen is represented with a folding-fan, in each instance closed; in one instance, that of an equestrian portrait, a _large_ fan is depicted. [120] In Campbell’s _London Tradesman_, 1747, it is recorded that ‘the Italian mounts are much more in request than anything of our own manufacture, and large prices are given for them.’ [121] H. M. Baird, _The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes_. [122] The Fanmakers’ Company, created by Charter in 1709, for nearly 100 years protected and regulated the trade, until the reduction of protective duties on foreign fans annihilated the English trade. (Notes by Colonel Sewell (Fanmakers’ Company), Schreiber MS., British Museum.) [123] _Spectator_, No. 296. [124] _Tatler_, December 29, 1709. Letter No. 113. John Hughes. [125] _Spectator_, No. 102. [126] E. J. Climenson, _Elisabeth Montagu, Queen of the Blue-stockings_. [127] The fan of Pope’s epigram was probably Italian. See page 179. [128] ‘Please notice No. 110, which rather points to one of your fans not being by Bartolozzi. Perhaps the “Lady of Quality” was Lady Duncannon.’—Letter by Mr. Lionel Cust to Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Schreiber MSS., British Museum. [129] Schreiber MSS., British Museum. _Extracts_, p. 100. [130] _Journal of the Archæological Association_, vol. xxvi., 1870.