print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.193-219
- Description
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Folded sheet of twenty-seven visiting cards of English Viscounts and immediate family, dated by Banks between 1760-1804. Text within [] indicates handwritten notes:
C,1.193: 'Viscountess Hereford / Chandos Street'; [1778]
C,1.194: 'Lord Nelson of the Nile'; [1800]
C,1.195: 'Lady Townshend / Portman Square / T Booker Bond Street'; [1778]
C,1.196: 'Viscountess Montagu / Queen Ann Street'; [1780]
C,1.197: 'Viscount Nelson / Duke of Bronte'; [1804]
C,1.198: 'Lord / Weymouth'; [1787]
C,1.199: 'Lady Weymouth'; [1781]
C,1.200: 'Lady Weymouth presents / her Compliment to [Mrs / Dashwood] and returns / [her] many thanks for the / honour of [her] obliging Equiries'; [1760]
C,1.201: 'Lady Falmouth's Compliments to / [Lady Dowager Shelburne][ / and desires the Favour of [her] / Company to Cards on [Wednesday] Evening / [the 6th of January]; [1781]
C,1.202: 'Mrs George Byng'; [North Audley Street / (Viscount Rorrington) 1781]
C,1.203: 'Miss Courtenay / Orchard Street'; [(Viscount Courtenay} / 1778]
C,1.204: 'Lord Dudley / Grosvenor Gate'; [1786]
C,1.205: 'Lord Hampden'; [1783]
C,1.206: 'Visct Hampden'; [1784]
C,1.207: 'Visct Hampden'; [1811]
C,1.208: 'Mr Hampden'; [1784]
C,1.209: 'Mr Hampden'; [1781]
C,1.210: 'Mrs Hampden'; [1780]
C,1.211: 'Mrs Hampden / Hughes fecit' [1781]
C,1.212: 'Ld. Hampden'; [1788]
C,1.213: 'Mr Trevor'; [1780]
C,1.214: 'Viscountess Hampden'; [1785]
C,1.215: 'Mrs Trevor / Argyle Street'; [1784]
C,1.216: 'Hampden / Booker Bond St'; [1789]
C,1.217: 'Mr Trevor / Argyll Street / Lockington Sculp / Shug Lane'; [1778]
C,1.218: 'Mr Le Viconte / de Hampden'; [1790]
C,1.219: 'Mdme: de Trevor'; [1787]
- Production date
- late 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 27 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 113 millimetres
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Width: 63 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder.
Visiting cards are associated with the people holding the title engraved on the card at time of handwritten date, unless otherwise stated here.
C,1.201: No Lady Dowager Shelburne in 1781, the Dowager Mary had died in 1780 so she is the presumed recipient.
C,1.203: the title of 'Miss Courtenay' could apply to any of the elder of the ten daughters of 2nd Viscount Courtenay
C,1.204-219: a collection of cards from the Hampden-Trevor family, each card unidentifiable to specific person.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: Henrietta Charlotte, Viscountess Hereford (C,1.193)
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Associated with: Frances, Viscountess Montagu (C,1.194)
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Associated with: Anne, Viscountess Townshend (C,1.195)
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Associated with: Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron and Viscount Nelson (C,1.196, 197)
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Associated with: Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (C,1.198)
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Associated with: Elizabeth, Marchioness of Bath (C,1.199, 200)
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Associated with: Lady Mary Shelburne (? C,1.201)
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Associated with: Lucy, Viscountess Torrington (C,1.202)
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Associated with: William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (C,1.204)
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Associated with: Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden (C,1.205-219)
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Associated with: Thomas Hampden-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Hampden (? C,1.205-219)
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Associated with: Katherine, Viscountess Hampden (C,1.205-219)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.193-219
