print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.363-372
- Description
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Page of ten visiting cards belonging to English Peers, dated by Banks between 1803-1815. Text within [] indicates handwritten notes:
C,1.363: The Bishop of Carlisle & Mrs Goodenough / request the honor of [Sir Joseph Lady & Miss Banks's] / Company at Dinner on [Saturday the / 22nd of April at six o'clock] / the favour of an answer is requested; [1815]
C,1.364: The Countess of Westmoreland / at Home / on Sunday Evening the 22d of July'; [1807 or before]
C,1.365: The Earl of Orford requests the Honor of [Lady Banks & Miss Banks's] Compnay on [Wednesday Evening April 28th 1813]
C,1.366: [Sir J, Lady & Miss Banks] 'Dowr Marchioness of Thomond at Home [Friday May 8th] Great George Street Westminster'; [1812]
C,1.367: Albinia / Countess of Buckinghamshire / at home [Tuesday Decr 31 9 o'clcok 1811 Dejune / Apres Minuit 1812] Honart's House [RSVP]; [1812]
C,1.368: [Lady & Miss Banks] Lady Monson at Home at her House, Charles Street [36] Berkeley Square / [Friday June 29th]
C,1.369: [Lady Brownlow Miss Custs] Albinia Countess of Buckinghamshire / A Venetian Breakfast / [Tuesday May 22d] / One O'Clock Hobart House; [1810]
C,1.370: [Sir Joseph & Lady Banks, Miss Banks] Marchioness Stafford at Home on Wednesday May 25th [1808];
C,1.371: [To remind] Earl Bathurst requests the Honor of [Sir Joseph Banks's] Compnay to Dinner on [Friday Da 23rd six oclock] the favor of an Answer is desired'; [1809]
C,1.372: The Duchess of Marlborough is very sorry to be prevented by Illness from seeing Company on Friday the 17th but hopes to have that pleasure on Friday the 1st of July; [1803]
- Production date
- late 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres (approx card size)
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Width: 116 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder., with C,1.373-382
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
- Associated names
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Associated with: Sir Joseph Banks (C,1.363, 365-366, 368, 370-371)
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Associated with: Dorothea, Lady Banks (C,1.363, 365-366, 368, 370-371)
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Associated with: Sarah Sophia Banks (C,1.363, 365-366, 368, 370-371)
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Associated with: Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle (C,1.363)
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Associated with: Elizabeth Goodenough (C,1.363)
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Associated with: Jane, Countess of Westmorland (C,1.364)
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Associated with: Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (C,1.365)
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Associated with: Mary Palmer, Lady Thomond (C,1.366)
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Associated with: Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire (C,1.367, 369)
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Associated with: Lady Elizabeth Monson (C,1.368)
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Associated with: Frances Cust, Baroness Brownlow (C,1.369)
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Associated with: Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (C,1.370)
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Associated with: Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (C,1.371)
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Associated with: Susan, Duchess of Marlborough (C,1.372)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.363-372
