Theatre and circus fans, the better to make your own limelight. All of these from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

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Atala and Chactas fan. Bone fan with the skin leaf painted with three cartels, one of which depicts the Indian couple Atala and Chactas crossing the Meschacebé River on a raft, as told in the novel Atala, ou Les Amours de deux sauvages dans le désert by French writer François-René de Chateaubriand (published in 1801). The second cartel could represent Othello and Desdemona in Venice, based on Shakespeare‘s tragedy Othello or the Moor of Venice, first performed in 1604. ca. 1840. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3803-1-atala.html

Large brisé wooden fan painted with a training scene of a circus act with a dog and monkey trainer. ca. 1880-1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3797-circus-rehearsal-fan-circa-1880-1900.html

Fan, the black silk leaf painted with a representation of a circus act with a trained monkey with a tortoiseshell or imitation mount. ca. 1880. Signed illegible. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3793-the-circus-show-fan-circa-1880.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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