print;
visiting-card;
invitation
- Museum number
- C,1.1497-1509
- Description
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Page of a folded sheet, thirteen decorated visiting cards and one invitation belonging to British persons; dated by Banks between 1778-1814; [] indicates hand written notes:
C,1.1497: 'Captn Lister / Blues'; [1781]
C,1.1498: 'Mrs Lister'; [1781]
C,1.1499: 'Mr Littlehales'; [1778]
C,1.1500: 'Mr Livingston'; [1785
C,1.1501: [June 14th 1797 / The Society of Physicians having agreed to dine with Dr Lettsom at Grove Hill, he requests the favor of Dr Fryer's company 1/2 before 5 o'clock on Monday the 26th inst An answer is requested];
C,1.1502: 'Lady Lloyd / Lower Seymour Street / Portman Square'; [1780]
C,1.1503: Colosseum, Pantheon and Trajan's Column; 'Mr Lloyd / [Dover Street] / Grave par Seraphin Gionvanni a Roma'; [(Amphitheatre / Pantheon / Trajan's Column) / 1785]
C,1.1504: as C,1.502; 'Lady Lloyd / Lower Seymour Street / Portman Square' [Evening]; [1814]
C,1.1505: 'Mrs Lloyd / Cavendish Square'; [1785]
C,1.1506: 'Lloyd / St James's Street'; [1787]
C,1.1507: 'Le General Lockhart'; [1783]
C,1.1508: 'Comtesse de Lockhart'; [1790 / General Lockhart is Count of the Roman Empire. The Comtesse was present at Court as a Foreigner. She was Miss Crawford of Rotterdam]
C,1.1509: 'Comtesse de Lockhart'; [1795]
- Production date
- 1778-1814 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 82 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 44 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 123 millimetres
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Width: 60 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder, with C,1.1483-1596
see for C,1.1487: MSS refers to cards C.1.1507-1509, but catalogued numerically on the above record
Visiting cards are associated with the people holding the title engraved on the card at time of handwritten date, unless otherwise stated here
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.1497-1509
