print;
visiting-card
- Museum number
- C,1.4404-4424
- Description
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Second page of a folded sheet, twenty-one blank visiting cards, each with square patterned border, mostly floral; most inscribed; dated by Banks between 1777-1793
Etching and engraving, coloured
Inscribed [] and lettered:
C,1.4404: [Dr Sr John Brown N13 Crane Court Fleet St'
C,1.4405: [Dr John No 81 G Titchfield Street]
C,1.4406: as C,1.4404
C,1.4407: [Mll Le Marquis de Bouille Half Moon Street No 6]
C,1.4408: as C,1.4404
C,1.4409: [Le Comte de Haslang Golden Sqe]
C,1.4410: [Mr Ellis Wimpole Street No 9]
C,1.4411: [Mr C Adams No 31 Bury Street St James's]
C,1.4412: [Mr Dury Nine Bond Street]
C,1.4413: [Miss Courtenay's Titchfield Street Cavendish Square];
C,1.4414: [Mrs Butler South Audley Street]
C,1.4415: [[Miss Graham] 'Barnes Coventry St'
C,1.4416: {illegible}
C,1.4417: [le Baron Hunnich Leichter Fields No 42] 'Barnes Coventry St'
C,1.4418: [Lady Margt Macdonald] 'Parker New Bond Street'
C,1.4419: [Mr Seward Lightsforts Lower Grosvenor Street]
C,1.4420: [Mrs Palsiset {?} Berners Street Mont 20]
C,1.4421: [Mr J Broderiss]
C,1.4422: [Mrs Marriott {illegible} Corner home on Sundays]
C,1.4423: [Mr Godfrey] 'Darly Strand'
C,1.4424: [Mr A Bleneowe]
- Production date
- late 18thC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 48 millimetres (approx card size)
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Width: 62 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The cards still kept and mounted in original folder of blank visting cards, with a first page: C,1.4384-4403.
C,1.4423: The card, lettered 'Darly sculp.' may be the work of Mary Darly who advertised on 13 December 1762 in the Public Advertiser: ‘Sundry new Designs for Visiting Tickets neatly drawn on Cards ... Ladies waited on with the Samples.’ A more elaborately worded advertisement appeared in the same newspaper on 3 April 1767:
‘To the Nobility. Dignified Message and Compliment Cards, so embellished that the different Degrees of Nobility are expressed in a Series of new invented Ornaments adapted to the Duke or Duchess, and down to the lesser Dignities of Peerage. The common Cards of the Shops being ornamented alike, prevents the necessary Distinction of Quality./To be had of Mary Darly, the Inventress, at No. 39, facing New Round Court, Strand. Where nobility wanting Quantities for Routs, &c. may be served on the shortest Notice, and on the same Terms as the common printed Cards.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,1.4404-4424
