print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.393-402
- Description
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Page of ten visiting cards with black border, dated by Banks between 1784-1813. Text within [] indicates handwritten notes:
C,1.393: The Countess of Normanton / Returns thanks for the Honor of / [Sir Joseph, Lady Banks & Mrs Banks's] Obliging Enquiries / Montagu Square; [1810]
C,1.394: Dowager Countess of Liverpool returns thanks for the Honor of [Sir Joseph & Lady & Mrs Banks'] obliging Enquiries; [1809]
C,1.395: Mrs Lionel Damer returns thanks for the honor of [Lady Selcey] obliging Enquiries; [1808]
C,1.396: Earl & Countess of Tankerville & Lady Mary Bennett return thanks to [Mrs Banks] for the honor of [her] obliging enquiries; [1813]
C,1.397: Lady Brownlow Returns many thanks to [Sr Joseph Lady & Mrs Bankes] for the honor of obliging enquiries / Hill Street; [1809]
C,1.398: Earl & Countess of Tankerville & Lady Mary Bennett return thanks to [Sir Joseph & Lady Banks] for the honor of [their] obliging enquiries; [1809]
C,1.399: Lady Monson, returns many thanks to [Sir Joseph, Lady and Mrs Banks] for the honor of obliging enquiries / Seymour Place; [1809]
C,1.400: The Earl & Countess of Mulgrave Return thanks to [Sir Joseph & Lady Banks & Miss Banks] for the honor of [their] obliging enquiries; [1813]
C,1.401: Earl Stanhope presents his Compliment to [Miss Banks] and returns many Thanks for the honour of obliging Enquiries; [1786]
C,1.402: Lord & Lady Mahon present their Complimts to [Mrs Banks] and return many Thanks for the [Honor] of [her[ obligin Enquiries; [1784]
- Production date
- late 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres (approx card size)
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Width: 115 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder., with C,1.383-392
Visiting cards are associated with the people holding the title engraved on the card at time of handwritten date, unless otherwise stated here.
C,1.401: In 1786, 'Earl Stanhope' could refer to either the 2nd or the 3rd Earl Stanhope, or alternatively to Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: Sir Joseph Banks (C,1.393-394, 397-400)
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Associated with: Dorothea, Lady Banks (C,1.393-394, 397-400)
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Associated with: Sarah Sophia Banks (C,1.393-394, 396-397, 399-402)
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Associated with: Diana, Countess of Normanton (C,1.393)
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Associated with: Catherine, Countess of Liverpool (C,1.394)
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Associated with: Hester Elizabeth, Baroness Selsey (C,1.395)
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Associated with: Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville (C,1.396, 398)
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Associated with: Emma, Countess of Tankerville (C,1.396, 398)
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Associated with: Mary Monck (C,1.396, 398)
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Associated with: Frances Cust, Baroness Brownlow (C,1.397)
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Associated with: Lady Elizabeth Monson (C,1.399)
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Associated with: Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (C,1.400)
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Associated with: Sophia, Countess of Mulgrave (C,1.400)
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Associated with: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (? C,1.401, 402)
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Associated with: Hester, Countess Stanhope (? C,1.402)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.393-402
