[112] Henri Bouchot, ‘History on Fans’ (Art and Letters, vol. ii.).
[113] A congratulatory address on this occasion was offered to the Queen by the market-women of Paris, written by M. de la Harpe on the inside of the fan of the spokeswoman, to which she repeatedly referred without the least embarrassment.—Henry F. Holt, Journal of the Archæological Association, vol. xxvi.
[114] See Engraved Fans of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, page 227.
[115] Menagiana.
[116] Pope had, nearly a century earlier, made allusion to the discontinuance of the fashion:
‘The modest fan was lifted up no more,
And virgins smiled at what they blushed before.’
[117] Steevens.
[118] See Italian fans, p. 109.
[119] Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England. In most of the early engraved portraits of Catherine of Braganza, the Queen is represented with a folding-fan, in each instance closed; in one instance, that of an equestrian portrait, a large fan is depicted.