Description:
One of two English hand-held face screens or fire screen or fire shield with a tightly-twisted red silk handle with turned brass ends, which protected one's face (which might be made up with paraffin-based cosmetics among the weathy) from the heat of the fire. The round, scalloped-edge screen is decorated with a painted seascape of with several sailing ships moving across a choppy sea on the front and black lacquer on the back side. Although the source for this image is not yet identified, this may also be based on an engraving (as is HD 64.104A) by Edward Goodale (1795-1870), one of England's top steel line engravers and one of only two engravers exclusively used by English artist William Turner (1775-1851), after a picture by William Clarkford Stanfield (1793-1867), a marine and landscape artist and member of the Royal Academy, who was one of the most admired marine painters of his time, along with Turner and Augusts Callcott. The style of this scene is similar to those depicted in "Stanfield's Coast Scenery" published in London in 1836.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Brass; Silk Link to share this object record:
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