Loggan, Thomas | The Little Fanmaker

Loggan, Thomas

[Bartholomew Fair, Fawkes]. [London: J.F. Setchel, 1824]

Unmounted fan leaf (sheet size: 298 x 552 mm). Aquatint depicting a busy fair; old folds reinforced on verso, some foxing, pencil annotation to lower margin. Hinged to card, matted.

The Dwarf Fan Painter of Tunbridge-Wells

Thomas Loggan (or Loggon) was reportedly born in Great Grimbsy in 1706, and started his career in London as the dwarf for the Prince and Princess of Wales. At some point in the 1730s, he apparently moved to Bath, where he ran a teahouse and china shop under the sign of The Little Fanmaker, and was eventually renowned for this skill. 

(While this work was once attributed to Loggan, the British Museum has now revised this to "Anonymous.") 

REFERENCE:

British Museum, number 1941,0712.2