fire screens (furniture)
Subject
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Painted fire screen with Robinson Crusoe and Friday
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034381263]
Identifier: MS-0919
Abstract
The object is a papier maché, handheld fire screen with a painted narrative scene from Daniel Defoe's, Robinson Crusoe. The scene shows Crusoe and Friday standing on a rocky outcrop sighting a ship. It is derived from the October 1686 episode in the story, where an English vessel carrying mutineers and prisoners approaches the island. The fire screen is typical of papier maché wares produced in the West Midlands in England in the first half of the nineteenth...
Dates:
1800 - 1850
Found in:
Special Collections