Mask fan

Unknown (English)

Item type:

textile, clothing and costume

Date of creation:

1740s

Height:

26.3 cm  (10 3/8 in.)

maximum open: 48.5 cm (19 1/8 in.); Arc: 155°

Technique / Medium:

paper leaf patched with skin, etched, engraved, and painted in watercolor; pierced, partially painted, varnished and gilded ivory sticks; mother-of-pearl; brass

Place of creation:

England

Description

Depictions of musical instruments and pages suggesting musical notation are found in multiple areas of this elaborately-decorated fan.
Description from museum website:
Printed and painted double paper leaf. Obverse: oval central mask with eyes excised; 2 scenes left: music shop with three men with lutes and flute, woman marked "Este enojaris" (Angry one) beating man marked "Gueramino" (Badman); 2 scenes right : street scene with woman with mask and fan offered "EL DIARIO DE OY" by beggar with staff, fan shop with 2 women with mantillas and shopkeeper behind counter with mask fans; inscribed to left of mask "Al Senor Dn Matheo Juille Gde Dios m ann Sevilla" ("To Senor Don Matheo Juille, May God preserve you for many years, Seville"). Reverse: painted books, music and decorative border. Gold paper binding. Eighteen pierced ivory sticks, painted, gilded and lacquered with baskets, fruit, shells, butterflies, picture of classical ruins, inkwell, music, musical instruments and wreaths. Mother-of-pearl buttons on brass rivet.

Iconclass

41D262
fan
41
material aspects of daily life
48C73
musical instruments; group of musical instruments
48C72
notation of music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Transverse flute [4093]
Lute [3394] (seemingly unrealistic lute-shaped instruments with large f holes instead of circular soundholes; possibly Spanish laúd (cittern family))
Bagpipe [3746]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Made in England for the Spanish market.

RIdIM record id

5930