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print; visiting-card; newspaper/periodical

Object Type: print; visiting-card; newspaper/periodical
Museum number: C,1.484-502
Description: Folded sheet of nineteen visiting cards of Scottish peers and immediate family, and cuttings; dated by Banks between 1767-1815. Text within [] indicates handwritten notes: C,1.484: Honble Mrs Wiggens, George Street, Hanover Square; [1786] C,1.485: Mr Francis Egerton / No 1 Grafton Street / Hay hill; [1815] C,1.486: Earl of Lauderdale; [1798] C,1.487: A Breakfast at Montagu House / [Tuesday May 29 at one o'Clock]; [1798] C,1.488: Lady Cecil Hamilton; [1790] C,1.489: Lord and Lady Stormont present their Compliments to [Joseph & Lady Banks] and desire the Honour of [their] Company to Breakfast at Wandsworth Hill on Saturday, 24th May, at Twelve o'Clock / the favour of an Answer is desired; [1783] C,1.490: [Sir Joseph & Lady Banks Mrs Banks] Lord Braybrooke & Miss Neville at Home Two O'Clock [Wednesday June 24th] / New Burlington Street; [1807] C,1.491: [Sir Joseph & Ly Banks & Mrs Banks] / Lady Spencer / a breakfast at Wimbledon-Park, On Saturday the 4th of July, at Two o'Clock; [1807] C,1.492: The Duke & Dutchess of Atholl return many thanks to [Sir Joseph & Lady Banks] for the Honor of [their] obliging Enquiries; [1808] C,1.493: Countess of Balcarres / Lady Elizabeth Lindsay / Lady Anne Lindsay / Great Cumberland Place; [1805] C,1.494: Viscountess Kirkwall / 124 Mount Street / Berkeley Square; [1813] C,1.495: Countess of Loudoun & Moira / [Miss Henry]; [1806] C,1.496: Countess Dowager of Rosslyn / Bolton Street / Miss Cotes / Miss Charlotte Cotes; [1807] C,1.497: Mr Frances Egerton / No 1 Grafton Street / Hay-hill; C,1.498: Countess of Antrim / Bruton Street; [1811] C,1.499: Earl of Selkirk / Mollard's Hotel, Dover Street; [1807] C,1.500: Duke of Roxburghe; [1786] C,1.501: Honble Captn Carnegie; [1787] C,1.502: newspaper cutting on the Countess of Balcarras's ball; [July 24 1807]
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Production date: late 18thC
Materials
Technique: engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 80 millimetres (largest); Height: 20 millimetres (smallest); Width: 124 millimetres; Width: 75 millimetres
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Curator's comments: The visiting cards still kept in original folder Visiting cards are associated with the people holding the title engraved on the card at time of handwritten date, unless otherwise stated here. C,1.488: Presumed to be the Marquess of Abercorn's second wife, although their marriage did not take place until 1792.
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (C,1.486); Associated with: Cecil, Marchioness of Abercone (? C,1.488); Associated with: Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Baron Cathcart (C,1.489); Associated with: Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont and Countess of Mansfield (C,1.489); Associated with: Sir Joseph Banks (C,1.489-492); Associated with: Dorothea, Lady Banks (CM,1.489-492); Associated with: Sarah Sophia Banks (C,1.490-491); Associated with: Richard Aldworth Neville, 2nd Baron Braybrooke (C,1.490); Associated with: Lavinia, Countess Spencer (C,1.491); Associated with: John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (C,1.492); Associated with: Jane, Duchess of Atholl (C,1.492); Associated with: Elizabeth, Countess of Balcarres (C,1.493, 502); Associated with: Lady Elizabeth Lindsay (C,1.493); Associated with: Lady Anne Lindsay (C,1.493); Associated with: Anna Maria, Viscountess Kirkwall (C,1.494); Associated with: Countess of Moira (C,1.495); Associated with: Charlotte Courtenay (C,1.496); Associated with: Anne Catherine, Countess of Antrim (C,1.498); Associated with: Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (C,1.499); Associated with: John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (C,1.500)
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: C,1.484-502
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