print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.297-317
- Description
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Page of twenty-one visiting cards belonging to English Peers, dated by Banks between 1758-1817. Text within [] indicates handwritten notes:
C,1.297: 'The Baroness Howe / Miss Marianne Curzon / 6 Cork Street'; [1813]
C,1.298: 'The Countess of Mansfield'; [1805]
C,1.299: 'Arch Bishop of Canterbury'; [1805]
C,1.300: 'Moring / Lady Brownlow / Miss Cusks / Hill Street'; [1810]
C,1.301: 'Countess of Pomfret at home Thursday June 20th 9 o'clock'; [1806]
C,1.302: [Gentleman are requested to come in dressed coats or uniform / Lord & Lady Bessborough] Lady Mary Bentinck / [Ball Tuesday the 22 April 9 o'clock]; [1808]
C,1.303: 'Lady Frances Bentinck'; [1808]
C,1.304: 'Countess of Buckinghamshire Lady Sarah Hobart Hamilton Place / Evening'; [1803]
C,1.305: 'Mrs Colonel Hamilton'; [14 Cleveland Row / St James's]; [1817]
C,1.306: 'Miss Mercer Elphinstone / Harley Street'; [1807]
C,1.307: 'Mrs Tennant / Thomas Hotel / Berkeley Square'; [1816]
C,1.308: 'The Dutchess of Norfolk's Compliments / to [Dowr Lady Shelburne] and returns thanks for the Honour of her Visit; having stayed only a few Days in Town, she could not many any Vists'; [1781]
C,1.309: 'Lady Coventry sends her Compliments to [Sir Thomas Robinson Baronet] and returns [her] many thanks for [his] obliging Enquiries / [1 June 58]
C,1.310: Le Chevalier Baillie / Barronet d'Angleterre et / Lieutenant General au Service / de la / Majeste Brittanique'; [1817]
C,1.311: 'Evening / Lady Hatington [Miss Sophia Gorn?] Berkeley Square; [1807]
C,1.312: 'Evening / Lady Halford / Miss Halford / Curzon Street'; [1817]
C,1.313: 'Sir John Silvester / Recorder of London'; [1817]
C,1.314: 'Lord Dela Zouche / Stafford Place'; [1815]
C,1.315: [Sister to the Marquis of Thomoni] Lady Harriet Hoare / 18 Crescent'; [1816]
C,1.316: 'Lady Mary Petre / Miss Petre / Miss Eliza Petre / Grosvenor Square'; [1816]
C,1.317: 'Mrs Cartwright Coulson's Hotel Lower Brook Street'; [1816]
- Production date
- late 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 65 millimetres (approximate card size)
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Width: 93 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder., with C,1.318-362
Visiting cards are associated with the people holding the title engraved on the card at time of handwritten date, unless otherwise stated here.
C,1.299: A new Archbishop of Canterbury was chosen in February 1805, Charles Manner-Sutton, who is included here, although it may be the card of the previous Bishop, John Moore.
C,1.304: Lady Sarah Hobart's mother had died by 1813, so the Countess of Buckingham mentioned is presumably her stepmother, Eleanor Eden.
C,1.316: Lists Lady Mary Petre and daughters but uncelar which of the daughters are named as she had five.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: Sophia Charlotte Howe (C,1.297)
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Associated with: Marianne Curzon (C,1.298)
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Associated with: Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (? C,1.299)
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Associated with: Frances Cust, Baroness Brownlow (C,1.300)
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Associated with: Lady Anne Middleton (C,1.300)
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Associated with: Lady Mary Bentinck (C,1.302)
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Associated with: Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (C,1.302)
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Associated with: Henrietta Frances Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (C,1.302)
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Associated with: Lady Charlotte Frances Milnes (C,1.303)
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Associated with: Eleanor Eden (? C,1.304)
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Associated with: Sarah, Countess of Ripon (C,1.304)
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Associated with: Miss Mercer Elphinstone (C,1.306)
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Associated with: Katherine Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (C,1.308)
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Associated with: Lady Mary Shelburne (? C,1.308)
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Associated with: Maria, Countess of Coventry (? C,1.309)
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Associated with: Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet of Rokeby (C,1.309)
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Associated with: Lady Elizabeth Barbara Halford (C,1.312)
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Associated with: Louisa Coventry (C,1.312)
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Associated with: Sir John Silvester (C,1.313)
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Associated with: Lady Harriet Hoare (C,1.315)
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Associated with: Lady Mary Petre (? C,1.316)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.297-317
