- Museum number
- J,10.56-79
- Description
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Twenty-four visiting-cards of foreigners in England in 1814, some of whom took part into the Allied Sovereigns' Visit to England in June before the Congress of Vienna
J,10.56: Le Prince Royale / de Baviere. / 47 Welbeck Street
J,10.57: Le Prince Royale / de Wurtemberg. / [added in pen and brown ink:] 18. Stratford Place Oxford Street
J,10.58: His Royal Highness / the Prince Royal / of Bavaria. /47 Welbeck Street
J,10.59: Le Comte de Beroldingen / Gènerale Major Aidee de Camp Gèneral / et Chambellan de S.M. le Roi de Württemberg / Son Envoye Extraordinaire et Ministre plènipotentiaire / près S.M. Britannique. / Upper Berkley Street. Portman Square
J,10.60: L'Envoié de Baviere. / 1, Lower Seymour Street, / Portman Square
J,10.61: M.r Wagner. / Secrètaire de Legation de Württemberg. / Upper Berkley Street, / 16. Portman Square
J,10.62: Le Comte / Charles de Pappenheim, / Adjutant General de Sa Majesté le Roi de Baviere / et General de Brigade
J,10.63: Le Comte / Albert Pappenheim / Lieutenant Colonel de la Cavallerie / Aide de Camp de S.A.R. le Prince / Royale de Bavière. /47 Welbeck Street
J,10.64: Le Major / Baron de Gumppenberg / Aide de Camp de S.A. R. le / Prince de Bavière
J,10.65: Count F.D. Tenison Walworth / 1, Lower Seymour Street
J,10.66: D.r Mühry. / [added in pen and brown ink:] Physician to his Majesty / at the Court of Hanover / 6 Arabella Row Pimlico
J,10.67: Le Lieutenant-Général Baron de / Wacquant-Geozelles, / Conseiller intime actuel et Chambellan de / S.M. l'Empereur d'Autriche. / [added in pen and brown ink:] Rue Mesnard no 4.
J,10.68: Le Prince heréditaire de Lubec / Prince de Holstein Oldenbourg. / 6. Sackville Street.
J,10.69: La Princess Volkonsky, / Dame D'houneur / de L.L. M.M. I.I. / de toutes les Russies / Pultney Hotel
J,10.70: Le Baron De Beaulieu Marconnay, / Gentilhomme de la chambre de S.A.S. / Msgr. le Duc de Holstein-Holdenbourg, / Prince-Regnant De Lubeck, &c. &c.
J,10.71:Mdlle D'Alédinskoy, / auprés de S.A.I. Madame la / grande Duchesse de toutes les Russies. / Princesse de Holstein Oldenbourg. / Pultney Hotel.
J,10.72: M.r de Laval / Chamberlain to H. I. M. the Emperor / of all the Russias. / [added in pencil:] 29 Portman Square
J,10.73: Count Beroldingen./ [added in pen and brown ink:] Brunets h[otel] Leicester Sq.
J,10.74: M.r de Laval / Chamberlain to H. I. M. the Emperor / of all the Russias.
J,10.75: Count Merveldt.
J,10.76: Sir James Wylie, / Physician to H.I.M. the / Emperor of all the Russias. / 21 , Bolton Street.
J,10.77: Madame de Sabloukoff. / [in pen and brown ink:] at Mr Angerstein's / 102 Pall Mall
J,10.78: General Sabloukoff / on the / Russian Service. / 102 Pall Mall
J,10.79: Le Prince de Condé
- Production date
- 1814 (or before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 63 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 38 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 76 millimetres
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Width: 91 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Catalogue numbers J,10.56 to J,10.400 are visiting cards related to people in Vienna during the Congress of 1814-15, with the exception of the first folder which mainly contains cards collected in London during the Summer of 1814. The visiting cards are still kept in the eleven folders put together by Sarah Sophia Banks. They are sorted as follows:
1 - "Tickets &c. &c. &c. / of Great People who were in / England 1814. / Foreigners" (J,10.56-79)
2 - "Variety. / English" (J,10.80-108)
3 - "Variety" (J,109-144)
4 - "High Rank / etc." (J,10.145-171)
5 - "High Rank / etc." (J,10.172-205)
6 - "Foreigners / High Rank / etc." (J,10.206-241)
7 - "Diplomatique. / Principally of those who had no Business at the Congress." (J,10.242-269)
8 - "Ambassadors etc. / at the / Congress." (J,10.270-309)
9 - "Ambassadors etc. / at the / Congress." (J,10.310-332)
10- "Sovereigns. / etc. etc. etc." (J,10.333-367)
11- "Sovereigns. / etc. etc. etc." (J,10368-400)
The order of the folders as originally intended by Sarah Sophia Banks has been inverted when they were registered for the Museum Collection, so the "Sovereigns" would have come first etc.
An attempt has been made to identify the names on the cards, for which see below and under the "Associated names".
A usueful guide of notable people that were staying in Vienna at the time of the Congress is 'Guide des étrangers à Vienne pendant le congrès : contenant les noms des souverains présents dans cette capitale, ainsi que ceux des ministres et chargés d'affaires des differentes cours auprès de celle de Vienne au mois de Janvier 1815 ; avec l'indication des rues et numero des maisons qu'ils habitent' [Jean Gaggiám], Vienna 1815.
J,10.56 and 58: Probably Ludwig of Bavaria (1786-1868), when Crown Prince. Adolf Michaelis ('Ein Jahrhundert Kunstarchäologischer Entdeckungen', Leipzig 1908, p. 48) claims that when the Crown Prince was in London in 1814 and saw the Parthenon marbles, he was so entranced that he enquired with his banker for the possibility of acquiring them, should the chance arise.
J,10.57: Wilhelm von Würtemberg (1781-1864), when Crown Prince
J,10.59: Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen (1780-1868). See also J,10.73 and 266.
J,10.60: Possibly Aloys Franz Xaver von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (1766-1849). See also J,10.276 and J,10.189.
J,10.62: Karl von Pappenheim (1771-1853).
J,10.63: Albert von Pappenheim (1777-1860).
J,10.65: Jenison Walworth (1764-1824).
J,10.66: Georg Friedrich Mühry (1774-1848).
J,10.67: Theodor von Wacquant-Geozelles (1754-1844).
J,10.68: Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg (1755-1829).
J,10.69: Possibly Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya (1792-1862), although the name could also read 'Volkovsky'. See also J,10.13 (a print illustrating the Russian Emperor and Archduchess with others at the balcony of the Pultney Hotel); and J,10.374 and 378.
J,10.70: Wilhelm Ernst Beaulieu-Marconnay (1786-1859).
J,10.71: Possibly related to Generalmajor Alexander Pavlovich Aledinsky (1775-1850c.), who had been appointed tutor of the russian Grand Dukes Nicholas and Mikhail in 1804 and accompanied them both to Europe in 1814-23. See A. Mikaberidze, 'Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars', New York 2005, p. 5.
J,10.72 and 74: Possibly Jean-François-Charles Laval de La Loubrerie (1761-1846). A caricature of a Count Laval is found in an album of portraits and caricatures of Russian and foreign diplomatic circles dated mid 19th century, see 1939,0711.3.22.
J,10.73: See J,10.59 and 266
J,10.74: see J,10.72.
J,10.75: Maximilian von Merveldt (1764-1815).
J,10.76: James Wylie (1769-1854). See also J,10.83.
J,10.77: Possibly Juliana Angerstein (1772-1846).
J,10.78: Nikolai Alexandrovich Sabloukoff (1776-1848).
J,10.79: Louis Joseph de Bourbon (1736-1818).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (J,10.56 and 58; as Prince Royal of Bavaria; J,10. 163 and 164 his aides de camp)
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Associated with: Maximilian I Josef, Elector and King of Bavaria, Grand Duke of Berg (J,10.56 and 58 his son; J,10.60 his envoy to London; J,10.62 his Adjutant General and General of Brigade)
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Associated with: William I, King of Würtemberg (J,10.57 as Prince Royal of Würtemberg)
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Associated with: Frederick I, King of Württemberg (J,10.57 his son; J,10.59 and 73 his General and Chamberlain; J,10.61 his Secretary of Legation to London; J,10.65 his High Chamberlain)
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Associated with: Graf Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen (J,10.59 as Minister for King Frederick I of Würtemberg; and J,10.73)
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Associated with: Aloys Franz Xaver von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (J,10.60 ?)
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Associated with: Mr Wagner (J,10.61 as Secretary of the Legation of Würtemberg to London)
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Associated with: Graf Karl von Pappenheim (J,10.62)
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Associated with: Comte Albert Pappenheim (J,10.63)
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Associated with: Anton Joseph Freiherr von Gumppenberg (J,10.64 as Aide de Camp of the Prince of Bavaria)
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Associated with: Count Jenison Walworth (J,10.65)
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Associated with: Dr. Mühry (J,10.66 as Hofmedicus of the House of Hanover)
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Associated with: Johan Peter Theodor von Wacquant Geozelles (J,10.67)
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Associated with: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Francis I, Emperor of Austria (J,10.67 his High Chamberlain)
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Associated with: Peter I Friedrich Ludwig, Regent and Grand Duke of Oldenburg (J,10.68; J,10.70 his Gentleman of the Bedchamber)
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Associated with: Princess Zenaide Wolkonsky (J,10.69?)
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Associated with: Elizabeth Alexeievna of Russia (J,10.69 her Lady in waiting)
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Associated with: Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (J,10.69 his wife's lady in waiting; J,10.72 and 74 his Chamberlain; J,10.76 his physician; J,10.78 General of his army)
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Associated with: Le Baron de Beaulieu Marconnay (J,10.70)
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Associated with: Mademoiselle D'Alédinskoy (J,10.71 as courtier of Ekaterina of Oldenbourg (Caterina Pavlovna of Russia))
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Associated with: Ekaterina Pavlovna of Russia (J,10.71 her courtier)
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Associated with: Jean-François-Charles Laval de La Loubrerie (J,10.72 and 74 as Chamberlain of Alexander I of Russia ?)
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Associated with: Graf Maximilian von Merveldt (J,10.75)
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Associated with: James Wylie (J,10.76 as Alexander's I of Russia physician)
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Associated with: Juliana Angerstein (J,10.77)
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Associated with: Gen. Nikolai Alexandrovich Sabloukoff (J,10.78)
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Associated with: Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (J,10.79)
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Congress of Vienna (Allied Sovereigns' Meeting in England, June 1814) 1814
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,10.56-79
