History of the Fan

Name: History of the Fan
Author: Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)

Fans

My thanks are also due to the officials of the various Museums, those
of the Print Room of the British, and the National Art Library,
Victoria and Albert Museums; to Sir C. Purdon Clarke, C.I.E., F.S.A.,
and his son, Mr. Stanley Clarke of the India Museum; Dr. Peter Jessen
of the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin; Professor Pazaurek, Stuttgart;
Dr. Hans W. Singer; to Sir George Birdwood, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., who
has kindly read the three chapters on ancient fans; to Professor W.
M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L.; Mr. W. Holman Hunt, O.M., R.W.S.; Sir L.
Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A.; the Rev. J. Foster, D.C.L.; the Clerk of
the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers; the Librarian at Welbeck; Mr.
Wilson Crewdson; Mr. W. Harding Smith; Mr. W. L. Behrens; Mr. R. Phené
Spiers; Mr. G. F. Clausen; Mr. J. Ettlinger; Mons. J. Duvelleroy; Mr.
H. Granville Fell; Mr. Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.; Mr. Talbot Hughes;
Mr. Frank Falkner, for help in various ways; and last, though by no
means least, to Mrs. E. P. Medley, for most valuable assistance in
translation.

  LONDON, 1909.        G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD.

CONTENTS

                                                            PAGE

  PREFACE                                                     ix

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS                                     xiii

  CHAPTER I

  THE ORIGIN AND USES OF THE FAN                               1

  CHAPTER II

  FANS OF THE ANCIENTS                                        10

  CHAPTER III

  FANS OF THE FAR EAST                                        33

  CHAPTER IV

  FANS OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES                                   77

  CHAPTER V

  THE FLABELLUM AND EARLY FEATHER-FAN                         87

  CHAPTER VI

  PAINTED FANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
    CENTURIES (ITALIAN AND SPANISH)                          107

  CHAPTER VII

  PAINTED FANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
    CENTURIES (FRENCH)                                       138

  CHAPTER VIII

  PAINTED FANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
    CENTURIES (ENGLISH, DUTCH, FLEMISH, AND GERMAN)          176

  CHAPTER IX

  ENGRAVED FANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
  CENTURIES. PART I.                                         204

  CHAPTER X

  ENGRAVED FANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
    CENTURIES. PART II.                                      232

  CHAPTER XI

  MODERN AND PRESENT-DAY FANS                                272

  INDEX                                                      301

[Illustration: PEACOCK-FEATHER FAN.

(From a Japanese Painting. British Museum.)]

[Illustration]

ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

    1. RINALDO IN THE GARDEN OF ARMIDA. LOUIS XV. H.R.H.
         THE PRINCESS OF WALES                             _Frontispiece_

                                                             TO FACE PAGE
    2. A CONCERT. DUTCH. H.R.H. PRINCESS LOUISE, DUCHESS
         OF ARGYLL                                                      1

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