print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.1-24
- Description
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Twenty-four visiting cards of English Dukes and immediate family, dated by Banks between 1756-1809 alongside card, [] indicates handwritten notes:
C,1.1: Duchess of Norfolk / J Booker Bond Street; [1780]
C,1.2: Duchess of Norfolk compliments to / [Sr Thos Robinson Brt] / and desires the honour of / [his] / Company on [Tuesday] / Evening / the / [19th of February 56]; [1756]
C,1.3: Duchess of Norfolk compliments to / [Sr Thos Robinson Brt] / and desires his company / [on Thursday the 11th of Feb to play at cards]; [1779]
C,1.4: Duke of Grafton; [1785]
C,1.5: Duchess of Grafton; [1779]
C,1.6: Duchess of Grafton; [1783]
C,1.7: The Duchess of Grafton presents Compts to _____ / & returns ____ many / thanks for the Honour of ___ / Obliging Enquiries; [1781]
C,1.8: Duchess of St Albans; [1785]
C,1.9: Lady George Beauclerk / [& Miss Bainbridge]; [1781]
C,1.10: Duchess of Bolton; [1793]
C,1.11: Duchess of Bolton, / Lady Catherine Powlett; [1784]
C,1.12: Duchess of Bolton; [1781]
C,1.13: Dowager Duchess of Leeds / Upper Grosvenor Street / [by Julia ?illegible]
C,1.14: Duchess of Leeds; [1783]
C,1.15: Lord Carmarthen / presents his Compliments to / [Lady Wallingford] / and returns many thanks for the / [inscribed]: honor / of [her] / obliging Enquiries; [1785]
C,1.16: The Duchess of Leeds; [1789]
C,1.17: Marquis of Carmarthen; [1788]
C,1.18: Marchioness of Carmarthen; [1788]
C,1.19: The Marchioness of Carmarthen.; [1788]
C,1.20: Duchess of Leeds; [1789]
C,1.21: Duke of Leeds; [1793]
C1,22: Duchess of Devonshire; [1781]
C,1.23: Marlborough House / A Masked Assembly / [8 o'clock] / Admit One Mask / CM / [810]; [June 19 1799]
C,1.24: Lord Robert Spencer; [1809 (old)]
- Production date
- 1756-1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 80 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 45 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 120 millimetres
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Width: 64 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards are kept in the original folder.
In this catalogue entry the owners of the cards are identified as those holding the title engraved on the card at time of the handwritten date, unless otherwise stated.
C,1.8-9, "Dutchess of St Albans' inscribed '1785' and 'Lady George Beauclerk', '1781': Jane, the last Duchess of St Albans had died in 1778 and her husband's aunt, Lady George Beauclerk (née Bainbridge), had died in 1772. There appear to have been no living persons of those names in the 1780s and Sarah Banks must have added posthumous dates, perhaps to record when she was given the cards.
C,1.13-14: a chinoiserie style card of "Dowgr. Dutchess of Leeds" inscribed "1764" and a neo-classical card of "Dutchess of Leeds" inscribed "1783": both are presumed to have belonged to Juliana, widow of Peregrine, 3rd Duke of Leeds who may have stopped using the term "Dowager" when the succeeding Duchess died in 1764.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: Katherine Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (C,1.1, 2 and 3)
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Associated with: Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet of Rokeby (C,1.2 and 3)
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Associated with: Elizabeth, Duchess of Grafton (C,1.5, 6 and 7)
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Associated with: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (C,1.4)
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Associated with: Jane Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (C,1.8)
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Associated with: Lady George Beauclerk (C,1.9)
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Associated with: Katherine Powlett, Duchess of Bolton (C,1.10, 11 and 12)
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Associated with: Juliana Osborne, Duchess of Leeds (C.1,13-14)
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Associated with: Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (C,1.15, C,1.17, and C,1.21)
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Associated with: Catherine Anguish, Duchess of Leeds (C,1.16, 18, 19, 20)
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Associated with: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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Associated with: Lord Robert Spencer (C,1.24)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.1-24
