Waistcoats & Weaponry is coming, and in this third Finishing School installment, Sophronia finally acquired her signature weapon. All spies, as you know, have signature weapons. So I've collected for you a bit of a retrospective on...
The Fan!
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| 1790s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| 1800 Brisé Fan The Kyoto Costume Institute |
This is very how I imagined Sophronia's fan:
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| 1820 Brisé Fan 1820s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| 1830s The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| 1840s The McCord Museum |
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| 1850-1870 The MET |
The Fan in the USA
The Fan Museum
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| 1867-1876 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Godeys July 1872 Fans |
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| 1875 Fixed Fan 1875 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| 1875 Tortoiseshell Fan 1875-1889 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| 1880s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Mourning Fan 1885-1895 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Wedding Fan 1890 Tiffany & Co., 1890s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
"Some young ladies have a bad habit of biting their fingers, especially
if they rejoice in handsome hands; and the same ladies, by way of
variety, are prone to bite the corners of books, and the edges of closed
fans." ~
The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie (American 1864)
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| 1890s The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| 1900s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Shell handle fan 1910 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Peacock feather fan 1915 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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