print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.4128-4135
- Description
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Page of eight blank visiting cards; all depicting architectural ruins, with blank or inscribed spaces for the name or card-owner; dated by Banks between 1780-1792.
Etching and engraving
C,1.4128: ruin of Colosseum and Column of Marcus Aurelius (?), Rome
C,1.4129, 4135: ruin of the Temple of Concord, the Roman Forum, Rome
C,1.4130: ruin of the Temple of Saturn, Capitoline Hill, Rome
C,1.4131: ruins from the Roman Forum, Rome, with domed roof in background
C,1.4132: Roman ruins with Column (possibly Marcus Aurelius)and Egyptian obelisk
C,1.4133: Similar to C,1.4132
C,1.4134: Pillared temple with forest and building in background; tree to right
- Production date
- late 18thC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 56 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 100 millimetres
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Width: 82 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The cards still kept and mounted in original folder, with C,1.4120-4127.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.4128-4135