"The fan divided into five spaces by four columns connected by festoons; between the columns figures and inscriptions with conundrums, riddles, etc.; in the centre a small figure of a man reading an inscription on a pedestal, commencing, though the letters are intentionally wrongly spaced, 'Heroes and Statesmen'; on the column a figure of Time and behind it a dead tree, over which floats a figure of Fame, bearing a small medallion portrait of Shakespeare." -- Cust.
