'England's Green & Pleasant Land'

The Fan Museum, 12 Crooms Hill, Greenwich
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This event ended on Sunday 6th of January 2013
Admission
£4/£3 (Adult / Concession)
£10 (Family)
Venue Information
Fan Museum Greenwich
12 Crooms Hill, SE10 8ER
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich 0.22 miles

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, audiences 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!

Admission to the exhibition includes entry to the permanent collection, which features important works by Gauguin and Sickert, and numerous rare fan leaves dating from the 13th century onwards.

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