print;
new year-card
- Museum number
- D,1.683-692
- Description
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Second page of a folded sheet, ten coloured new year-greetings cards (with two MS notes); dated by Banks 1800-1802; text within [] indicates handwritten notes:
D,1.683: angel carving into plinth, on pink ground: 'zum Antritt des Jahres / 1798 / Friede [illegible name];
D,1.684: angel carrying banderole; 'Zum neuen Jahr 1798 / Friede / [Hirsch] / Wien bei Joh Otto pr. Kunsth';
D,1.685: selection of pictures, notebooks and domestic utensils including scissors; 'Alle Gatungen Neujarsgeschenke / Zum neuen Kahr 1800 von / au finden bey Ridel';
D,1.686: the year 1800 in irradiated floral oval; [Vogl und seine Gattin]; [1802]
D,1.687: card with medal: 'Gesundheit Glück und segen'; 'Entrée billet ins neue Saeculum [Menninger le fils] Wein bey Joseph Eder'; [1802]
D,1.688: humourous map of island and surrounding sea labelled with various wishes for the New Year 1800, entitled 'Wegweiser in das neue Jahrhundert'; island named 'insel des neuen jahrhunderts', sea 'Meer des segens'; with flap containing underneath verse wishing good fortune; 'Bey J Eder'; [1800]
D,1.689: two figures, seated by water fountain, gesturing to two embacing birds, seated on top of mountain, on yellow ground; 'Zum neuen Jahr [Dr Langmayer]'; [1802]
D,1.690: four women present gifts to another woman clad in armour; on her shield: 'Zum euen Jahre' [Amon]; [1802]
D,1.691: dog holding banderole with words: 'Pour left nouvel an [Val: Noble de Mack]' above French verse on the loyalty and virtues of dogs, on green ground
D,1.692: angel with cornucopia, and trumpet, resting foot on plinth 'MDCCI', on blue ground; '[Fr: de Leithner] Blaschke sc'; [1802]
SSB MS notes: ['The Archduke / The Deliverer of Germany.']
[The Plan to live in the New Year / "The Capt of Still Enjoyment. Island of Fidelity. The Cape of true Friendship Island of Meeting. Island of Satisfaction."]
- Production date
- 1800-1802 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 85 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 14 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 114 millimetres
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Width: 78 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The visiting cards still kept in original folder, within series of cards belonging to non-British people, with first sheet: D,1.677-682
MS notes unregistered and loose, unclear as to which card they refer to.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,1.683-692