Sarah Sophia Banks
Portrait by Angelica Kauffman
Sarah Sophia Banks (28 October 1744 – 27 September 1818) was an English collector of antiquarian items and sister of the naturalist Joseph Banks. She collected coins and medals and ephemera which are now historically valuable like broadsheets, newspaper clippings, visiting cards, engravings, advertisements and playbills. Her collections were given to the British Museum and the Royal Mint Museum.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
She was born on 28 October 1744 at 30 Argyll Street in Soho, the daughter of William Banks, the MP for Grampound, and his wife Sarah.[7]
References
- ↑ The Library of Sarah Sophia Banks, Royal Mint Museum
- ↑ Pincott, Anthony (March 2004), "The Book Tickets of Sarah Sophia Banks", The Bookplate Journal, 2 (1): 3–30
- ↑ Eagleton, Catherine (2014), "Collecting America: Sarah Sophia Banks and the 'Continental Dollar' of 1776", Numismatic Chronicle (174): 293–301
- ↑ Eagleton, Catherine (2013), "Collecting African money in Georgian London: Sarah Sophia Banks and her collection of coins", Museum History Journal, 6 (1): 23–38
- ↑ Eagleton, Catherine (2013), The collections of Sarah Sophia Banks, Horncastle: Sir Joseph Banks Society
- ↑ Leis, Arlene Carol (2013), Sarah Sophia Banks: Femininity, Sociability and the Practice of Collecting in Late Georgian England, Volume I, University of York
- ↑ Gascoigne, John (2004), "Banks, Sarah Sophia", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1301
External links
- British Museum Collection Online – over 14,000 objects from her collection which are now at the British Museum
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