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Title: Fan : The ladies telegraph, for corresponding at a distance
Contributor: Rowe, Robert, 1775-1843, engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: 1798
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: RESTRICTED. Fragile. Cannot be paged, imaged or reproduced without curatorial review. Use of original may require special handling instructions and extended retrieval and delivery time.
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Description: Folding paper fan, mounted on bone sticks decorated in silver, guardsticks hand-painted with flower sprays.
Imprint from text in oval on right hand side of fan and text at lower left hand side. "Invented and engraved by Robert Rowe, and entered at Stationer's Hall". Leaf engraved on the obverse with "Questions" and "Answers" and "Method of using the Telegraph", with the alphabet along top edge, each letter with corresponding moveable tab, with hand-colored key to the alphabet below; verso of leaf with each section painted a color.
Extent: 1 fan : illustrations ; Guard: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.) ; Maximum open: 48 cm. (18 3/4 in.)
Identifier: 633342
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/24319
Language: English
Subject: Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
Fans (Costume accessories). (aat)
Source: Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased at Dominic Winter auction, lot #133, Dec. 13, 2012.

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