print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.1719-1730
- Description
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Page of a folded sheet, twelve decorated visiting cards belonging to British persons; dated by Banks between 1758-1798; [] indicates hand written notes:
C,1.1719: 'Mrs Pigou Presents her Compliments to [Capt & Mrs Girardo {?}] & desires the Honour of [their] Company to Cards [Friday the 12 of Jany] / Hughes fecit'; [1781]
C,1.1720: 'Mr Pitt presents his Compliments to [Sir Thos Robinson] and returns [his] many thanks for the honour of [his] obliging Enquiries / [23 Feb 58]; [1758 / (Earl of Chatham 1776)]
C,1.1721: 'Mr Pitt / Organist of the Cathedral Worcester'; [1798]
C,1.1722: 'Mr Pitt presents his Compliments to [Sir Thomas Robinson] and returns [him] many thanks for the honour of [his] obliging Enquiries'; [1759]
C,1.1723: 'Lady Hester Pitts' Compliments to [Sr Thos Robinson] and returns [him] a great many thanks for [his] obligin enquiries'; [1758]
C,1.1724: 'Mrs Pocock / Park Place'; [1785]
C,1.1725: 'Mr Plowden [11 Barro Road]; [1783]
C,1.1726: 'Mrs Pole / Bloomsbury Square'; [1780]
C,1.1727: 'Mrs Pole & Miss [Pole] Mortimer Street'; [1781]
C,1.1728: 'Mr Polhill / 15th Dragoons'; [1790]
C,1.1729: 'Mrs Pomeroy'; [1783]
C,1.1730: irradiated figure with lyre; 'J Ponsonby'; [1785]
- Production date
- 1758-1798 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 64 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 37 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 62 millimetres
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Width: 94 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder, with C,1.1731-1746
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,1.1719-1730
