Ivory fan with vellum leaf

Description

A hand-painted folding fan with carved ivory sticks and guards, the upper guards backed with cerise foil. The vellum leaf is decorated with figures enacting a scene from David Garrick's production 'The Jubilee' which debuted on the London stage on the 14th October 1769.

Here a procession of characters from Shakespeare's plays are shown around a central image, painted in grisaille, of a Shakespeare statue based on Peter Scheemakers's statue at Westminster Abbey, possibly intended to represent the statue gifted by Garrick to Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall; a winged personification of Fame blowing her trumpet reaches out to hold a wreath over Shakespeare’s head. The verso is plain.