Fan-seller
1800
watercolor
paper
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
watercolor
paper
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Fan-seller is a 1800 watercolor by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a person carrying fans on a pole across their shoulders. They stand on a plain ground with a rack of open fans on one side and a basket of more fans on the other. The figure wears blue and the fans are cream-colored. To learn more about the style of this painting, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
A painting from 1800 shows a person in blue standing on a plain background, carrying a long pole across their shoulders with goods suspended from it. To the left, a rack displays open cream-colored fans, while to the right, a large basket contains additional folded fans. This work is one of twenty-four images in an album illustrating different trades and occupations, cataloged as D.322-1894 to D.345-1894.
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