Cut signatures & signed documents.- Carter (Hannah, c. 1789-1879) Collection of cut signatures and signed documents collected by Hannah Carter, cut signatures, including: Prince George of Denmark (husband of Queen Anne), George III, Queen Caroline (wife of George IV), Princess Charlotte (daughter of George IV), signed documents, including: Sir Robert Southwell of Kinsale, 4 Bills of Lading (3 Carlisle Bay, Barbados, 1714-15, and 1 Massachusetts, 1830), 8 military commissions (Louis XVI secretarial signature, George IV, Queen Victoria etc.); and a quantity of others, most laid down or tipped-in on album ff., loosely inserted, bookplate of John Carter and Hannah Carter's signature on front pastedown, contemporary morocco-backed album, gilt, spine rubbed, chipped at head and tail, v.s., v.d. [17th - mostly 19th centuries] (c. 85 pieces). ⁂ Provenance: Hannah Carter was the youngest of three daughters born to John Carter (1725-1810), brother to the poet Elizabeth Carter (1707-1806), and his third wife Ann Carter née Powell. She was among the first travellers to enter Paris in 1814 during Napoleon's brief exile on Elba and her Letters, based on those written to her sister Charlotte Carter von Humboldt (b. 1786), were published soon after her return. She later married George Smith (c. 1777-1857), Secretary to the Navy Board. At some point they relocated to Malines, Belgium, where George Smith died in 1857.
Cut signatures & signed documents.- Carter (Hannah, c. 1789-1879) Collection of cut signatures and signed documents collected by Hannah Carter, cut signatures, including: Prince George of Denmark (husband of Queen Anne), George III, Queen Caroline (wife of George IV), Princess Charlotte (daughter of George IV), signed documents, including: Sir Robert Southwell of Kinsale, 4 Bills of Lading (3 Carlisle Bay, Barbados, 1714-15, and 1 Massachusetts, 1830), 8 military commissions (Louis XVI secretarial signature, George IV, Queen Victoria etc.); and a quantity of others, most laid down or tipped-in on album ff., loosely inserted, bookplate of John Carter and Hannah Carter's signature on front pastedown, contemporary morocco-backed album, gilt, spine rubbed, chipped at head and tail, v.s., v.d. [17th - mostly 19th centuries] (c. 85 pieces). ⁂ Provenance: Hannah Carter was the youngest of three daughters born to John Carter (1725-1810), brother to the poet Elizabeth Carter (1707-1806), and his third wife Ann Carter née Powell. She was among the first travellers to enter Paris in 1814 during Napoleon's brief exile on Elba and her Letters, based on those written to her sister Charlotte Carter von Humboldt (b. 1786), were published soon after her return. She later married George Smith (c. 1777-1857), Secretary to the Navy Board. At some point they relocated to Malines, Belgium, where George Smith died in 1857.
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