Fan

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fan leaf provides a good example of a Victorian adaptation of aesthetics and styles of earlier periods. The colors and style of the Italian Renaissance are reflected on the obverse side; on the reverse is a charming adaptation of an 18th-century genre painting showing men and women engaged in a popular game of the period

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art