print;
visiting-card;
manuscript
- Museum number
- C,1.1322-1339
- Description
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Page of a folded sheet of seventeen decorated visiting cards with one manuscript note, belonging to British persons; dated by Banks between 1778-1792; [] indicates hand written notes:
C,1.1322: 'Mrs Haynes / Woodstock Street / Hughes fec'; [1780]
C,1.1323: 'Mr Hayne / 10 / Circus'; [1791]
C,1.1324: 'Mrs & Miss Hays's / Charles Street / Berkelet Square'; [1780]
C,1.1325: garter around sceptre; 'Sir Isaac Heard'; [1792]
C,1.1326: 'Lady Head / Park Street'; [1789]
C,1.1327: 'Lady Heathcote / Grosvenor Street'; [1780]
C,1.1328: as C,1.1325; 'Sir Isaac Heard'; [1791]
C,1.1329: 'Mrs Heber / Lower Grosvenor Street'; [1781]
C,1.1330: garter around sceptre with two classical women with side, holding cornucopia and scales of Justice; 'Jones, Frome / Auctioneer'
C,1.1331: 'Mrs Heber / Westminster'; [1780]
C,1.1332: 'Mrs Hechstetter / Upper Grosvenor Str'; [1784]
C,1.1333: MSS in Banks' handwriting on C,1.1330: [1798 / Jones the Froom Auctioneer / seems to have used part of this plate for a part of his Shop Bill (Sir Isaac Head's visting Ticket)]
C,1.1334: 'Mr Anderson'; [1781]
C,1.1335: 'Mr. Heneage / Wimpole Street'; [1791]
C,1.1336: ''Mrs Henderson'; [1781]
C,1.1337: 'Mrs Heneage / Wimpole Street'; [1791]
C,1.1338: 'Mrs Heneage / Upper Grosvenor Street / Hughes Fecit'; [1780]
C,1.1339: 'Mrs Heneage / Grosvenor Street / Mitchell Ft Bond Street'; [1778]
- Production date
- 1778-1792 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 77 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 47 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 105 millimetres
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Width: 64 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder, with C,1.1309-1321
Sir Isaac Head's visiting card (C,1.1325, 1328) uses the same central design of garter with sceptre as the Auctioneer card (C,1.1330).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.1322-1339