History of the FanRhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
History
History of the Fan
Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
Fans
Engraved fans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French—
Earliest, 204.
Classical, 206.
Topical, 207.
Naval and military, 207.
Separation of America from England, 212.
Capture of Granada, 212.
Louis Seize, 212.
Birth of the Dauphin, 212.
Professor Charles’s balloon, 214.
Beaumarchais’ comedy, _Le Mariage de Figaro_, 216.
Operatic, 216.
The Revolution, 219.
Mirabeau, 223.
Paper-money difficulties, 223, 224, 227.
Abolition of the Slave-Trade, 226.
Cabriolet, 227.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 228, 229.
Russian campaign of 1812, 230.
Nicaragua Canal, 230.
Engraved fans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English—
Coronation of George II., 232.
_Beggar’s Opera_, 233.
Marriage of the Crown Princess with Prince of Orange, 234.
William Hogarth, 238.
Victories of Admiral Vernon, 240, 241.
The unpopular Prime Minister, 241.
Jacobite Rebellion, 243.
Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 244.
Death of the Prince of Wales, 1751, 244.
Taking of Quebec, 244.
Marriage of George IV., 246.
Lord Howe’s victory, 247.
Trial of Warren Hastings, 247.
Popular resorts, 256.
Opera, 262.
Lord Hardwicke’s New Marriage Act of 1753, 267.
Processes of, 270.
Entertainment fans, 256.
‘Entomologist,’ 280.
Eugénie, Empress, 57, 279, 280, 281.
Euripides, _quotation_, 29.
‘Éventail brisé,’ 119.
Excise fan, 234.
Fabri, Alex., 147.
Fair fans, 256, 257.
Fairholt, _quotation_, 178.
Fan and towel or handkerchief beaters, 21.
Fan as decorative motif in design, 76.
Fan as emblem of life, Japan, 20, 60.
Fan-bearer, office of, 16;
privileges of, 19;
Assyrian, 20, 21;
badge of Assyria, 20.
Fan games, 75, 76.
Fan-shops, Paris, 151; London, 187.
Fannière Brothers, 278.
Feast of Lanterns, 46.
Feather-fans, Greek, 29, 30;
Etruscan, 30;
Roman, 30, 87;
India, 40;
China, 46;
wing-shaped, 47, 57;
primitive, 77;
eagle, 82;
Venetian, 99;
France, Charles V., 100;
twelfth to sixteenth centuries, 101;
white and coloured, 102;
France, 144;
English, 176;
modern, 287, 288, 289, 290;
woodcock, 289.
Feather-wands, 84.
Feather-work, 50, 288.
Fell, H. Granville, 296.
Ferrara, or duck’s-foot fan, 107.
‘Fête de l’Agriculture,’ 171.
‘Fête de la Fédération,’ 222.
‘Fête on the Piazzetta,’ 125.
Feuchères, Jean, 278.
Feure, Georges de, 297.
Fielding, Henry, 256.
Figaro fans, 216.
Filigree, 55, 56, 57, 58.
Fitzherbert, Mrs., 195.
Flabelliferæ, 15, 31, 45.
Flabellum, Egyptian, 16;
leek-green, 32;
Christian, 87-97;
early adoption by the Latin Church, 88;
symbolism of, 88;
types of, 89; Tournus, 89, 90;
handle, French twelfth century, 91, 92;
capital, North German, 92;
peacock, 94;
metal, 99;
cockade, 100.
Flagellum, the mystical _vannus_, 11.
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