Enfilade

From London’s Fan Museum:

England’s Green and Pleasant Land
The Fan Museum, Greenwich, 11 September 2012 — 6 January 2013

Drawing from The Fan Museum’s unrivalled collection of fans and fan leaves, England’s Green & Pleasant Land strikes a particularly jubilant note as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee year draws to a close.

Beginning with a rare wood-block printed fan, The Hapy [sic.] Restoration, c. 1661, visitors are taken on an evocative journey through England’s cultural, social and political landscape, covering a period of some 250 years. The exhibition includes a number of fine 18th-century fans, upon which formal city squares, stately houses, and idyllic scenes of rural life are imaginatively depicted. Also on show is a delectable assortment of early printed commemorative fans with themes as diverse as political trials, royal births and even fortune telling!