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Date
1880 – 1900
Material
paper; wood
Catalogue Number
103.08.0299 a-i
Description
Eight small souvenir paper fans with thin bamboo handles. Red is most dominant colour on all fans. Fans (a-f) are palmate in shape while (g-i) are smaller and circular. All five have a little mirror placed upper left center, and a blue and yellow fan motif at the base where handle meets paper. (a) …
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Title
Miniature Fan Collection
Date
1880 – 1900
Material
paper; wood
Dimensions
14.5 cm
Description
Eight small souvenir paper fans with thin bamboo handles. Red is most dominant colour on all fans. Fans (a-f) are palmate in shape while (g-i) are smaller and circular. All five have a little mirror placed upper left center, and a blue and yellow fan motif at the base where handle meets paper. (a) image of Japanese woman, bottom left, in 3/4 profile facing right, Japanese male, upper right, faces woman. Small mirror makes up one side of a suspended box. Both figures have bright red lips. (b) Male figure bottom left, looks upwards towards figure of Japanese woman, upper left. Mirror in shape of full moon in background is partially hidden by midground post bearing Japanese calligraphy. (c) Two Japanese males in 3/4 profile facing each other, dressed in official looking clothing. Both are mustached. Mirror appears as one side of street lantern in background. (d) Image of Japanese woman, upper right, looking left toward male who wields a fan in his right hand, the mirror is a part of fan. (e) image of two Japanese women bottom left, faces in 3/4 profile, man wearing helmet upper right. Half moon shaped mirror upper left. (f) Japanese woman lower left, in 3/4 profile. Man in upper right looking down. Mirror in upper left corner in shape of lantern. (g) Small round fan with scene painted on both sides. One side, similar to (a-d) shows male Japanese figure looking right toward female figure, upperight. Small mirror hangs on stand, upper right center. On reverse is red circle with blue, white, and purple cloud like background above yellow fan shape. . Green calligraphy, left center, framed by three consecutive frames. (h) small round fan with scene painted on both sides. On front is similar design to (b) with male figure looking up towards female figure. Round mirror. Same design on back as (g). (i) small round fan with small square mirror and man in lower left corner looking up at woman.
Subject
households
miniatures
figure
female
male
Japanese
Edith Morse Robb
E. S. Morse
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0299 a-i
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Artist
Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)
Date
c. 1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
ViS.02.05
Description
Colour: brown, mauve. Central image is a bucking pack horse. To the left is a pack horse going away from the viewer and a rider on a black horse facing out.To the right are two more pack horses running to the center, and a rider on a horse behind. Underfoot is prairie scrub and behind in the distan…
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Artist
Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
c. 1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
47.3 x 62.1 cm
Description
Colour: brown, mauve. Central image is a bucking pack horse. To the left is a pack horse going away from the viewer and a rider on a black horse facing out.To the right are two more pack horses running to the center, and a rider on a horse behind. Underfoot is prairie scrub and behind in the distance purple mountains.
Subject
landscape, mountain
animal, horse
activity, packing
figure, male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
ViS.02.05
Images
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This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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