[120] In Campbell’s London Tradesman, 1747, it is recorded that ‘the Italian mounts are much more in request than anything of our own manufacture, and large prices are given for them.’
[121] H. M. Baird, The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
[122] The Fanmakers’ Company, created by Charter in 1709, for nearly 100 years protected and regulated the trade, until the reduction of protective duties on foreign fans annihilated the English trade. (Notes by Colonel Sewell (Fanmakers’ Company), Schreiber MS., British Museum.)
[123] Spectator, No. 296.
[124] Tatler, December 29, 1709. Letter No. 113. John Hughes.
[125] Spectator, No. 102.
[126] E. J. Climenson, Elisabeth Montagu, Queen of the Blue-stockings.
[127] The fan of Pope’s epigram was probably Italian. See page 179.
[128] ‘Please notice No. 110, which rather points to one of your fans not being by Bartolozzi. Perhaps the “Lady of Quality” was Lady Duncannon.’—Letter by Mr. Lionel Cust to Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Schreiber MSS., British Museum.
[129] Schreiber MSS., British Museum. Extracts, p. 100.