An antique French ladies fan. Features love letters and hand painted sepia tone landscapes with fish scale background in gold leaf. Top border in finely painted grape and vine trellis pattern. Landscapes with artists signatures M Sefton. Velum decorated with a stationery letter and illustration forms, printed with English and French language verses, and accompanied by a typewritten translation. Translation reads: My first denotes affliction's bitter wound which fate ordained, my second should ensure 'til gracious heaven, my third iniquity found to sooth my second and my first to cure. Letters read: Thrice happy England: Where virtue sits with greatness on the throne; and conscious interests joining King and people. Supplies them strength resulting from the embrace. O forwar'd country_____. Sweet are the pleasures to a ______ known joy unalloy'd and transports all her own to her each hour now happiness supplies and swells the measure of her endless joys---- In every child her youthful strength revives: ____with their growth and as they live, she lives. Proud for their honor, great in their good name she shares the lustre of their rising fame____etc. French sections: To motherly love! I wish you a happy return! Politeness is to the soul that which charm is to the face. From the kindness of the heart it is the sweet image. And it is the kindness that one cherishes. Presented in an custom fitted lucite shadowbox frame.

Work Size: 10 x 18 in.

Dimensions: 13.75 X 22 X 2 in.

Condition: Good to fair overall condition having normal age related surface wear. toning, and foxing. Frame having wear to corners and edges. Estate fresh to the market.

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