NELSON & THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, 1798

an entertaining paper fan titled Nelson Victory, the vane printed in monochrome, the upper section listing the ships and their numbers of guns in the English and French lines of battle, and the main body announcing the names and steps of “18 new Country Dances for 1799” mostly relating to naval themes, top edge bound with golden paper (tarnished) and with boxwood lower sticks, minor foxing but another very rare and apparently unrecorded survival, extreme width 18½in. (47cm.)

Provenance: Exhibited: The Trafalgar Bicentenary Exhibition, 2005, Fan Museum, Greenwich, no. 25 (with exhibition label).