History of the FanRhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
History
History of the Fan
Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
Fans
fan makers’ petition to Parliament demanding prohibition
of importation of fans from India, China, and the East, 182;
tax upon wooden- and feather-fans, 182;
importation of feather-fans forbidden, 182, 184;
disputes between Fanmakers’ Company and journeymen, 182;
extent of the industry and adverse conditions in the middle
of the eighteenth century, 182;
tea-merchants as dealers in imported fans, 183;
principal enactments regulating importations, 184;
London fan-shops, 187;
large fans, 187;
selection of partners at dancing assemblies, 189;
influence of peace between Austria and France, 190;
spangles, 191;
ivory brisé, 194;
Wedgwood, 194;
Napoleonic wars, 195.
DUTCH.—
Early uses, 197;
mounts, 197;
historical or fanciful subjects, 198;
influence of France, Italy, and China on the treatment
of the mount, 198;
Flemish, 199;
varnish, 200;
ivory brisé, 200;
horn, 201;
small decorated spangled, 201;
sticks, 202.
GERMAN.—
Medallion, 203;
lace or net, 203;
eighteenth century the era of the fan, 203.
Palliser, Mrs. Bury, 291.
Palm fans, 2, 42, 43;
lateral, 43, 78;
natural 77;
Talipot, 78;
Palmyra, 78.
Pankhá, 40, 41, 45, 78.
Papperitz, Georg, 284.
Parchment fens, 87.
Paris, Madame la Comtesse de, 203.
Parkman, Francis, 83, note.
Pasquier, Étienne, 115, 160.
Pattern fans, Etruscan, 30.
Pausanias, 23, 24, note.
‘Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle,’ 190.
Peacock: 30, 31, 39;
Greek, 29, 30;
Roman, 31, 87;
emblem, 39, 44;
India, 40;
quills, 42;
China, 46, 47;
feathers, 51, 87, 89;
Musci-fugium, 93;
plumes of, 101.
Perrot and Chipiez, 22, 24.
Persians, ventilating fan, 25;
fan crest, 27.
Petit, Édouard, 121, note.
Petrie, Prof. W. M. Flinders, 15.
Pheasant, 46; Argus, 54.
Philibert, St., 90.
Philippe le Bel, 196.
Phœnicians, 27.
Phœnix, 51, 56.
Phré, sacred barque of, 15.
‘Piazza of St. Mark, Venice,’ 125.
Pichard, le Sieur, 144.
Pictorial art, 141.
Piis, Augustin de, 2.
Pinchbeck, Jonathan, 235, 236, 237, 238, 243, 258, 259, 263, 264.
Piqué work, 117;
employment of, 119.
Plautus, flabelliferæ, 31.
Pleated fans, _vide_ Folded fans.
Pliny, sacrifices of Cyrenians, 23.
Poggi, 192, 193.
Poigey, Dr., 144.
Pollen, Mrs. Hungerford, 195.
‘Pompadour’ fan, 166.
Pompadour, Marquise de, 122.
Ponsonby, Lady, 124.
Pope, _quotation_, 174, note, 179.
Popelin, Claudius, 281.
Popular resorts, fans of, 256, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262.
Portraits, fans appearing in:
Queen Elizabeth, Anne of Denmark, Princess Elizabeth, wife
of John Pen, Esq., Sebastian del Piombo, 104;
Maria Giuseppa, Archduchess of Austria; Maria Cardina, Queen
of Naples; Queen Maria Cristina di Borbone; Queen Maria Louisa, 129.
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