Victorian Hand Fan Fashion Montage

by Peter Ogden

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Victorian Hand Fan Fashion Montage

Artist

Peter Ogden

Medium

Painting - Chromolithograph

Description

This is a restored copy of a circa 1880 Allen & Ginter Cigarettes poster featuring a montage of Victorian hand fans.
Allen & Ginter was a Richmond, Virginia, tobacco manufacturing company formed by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter around 1880. The firm created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States.
A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is any broad, flat surface that is waved back-and-forth to create an airflow. Generally, purpose-made handheld fans are folding fans, which are shaped like a sector of a circle and made of a thin material mounted on slats which revolve around a pivot so that it can be closed when not in use.
The Fine Art America logo does not appear on the final product.

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October 19th, 2018

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