Sarah Sophia Banks | |
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 Portrait by Angelica Kauffman | |
| Born | October 28, 1744 |
| Died | September 27, 1818 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | English |
| Known for | Collections in the British Museum, British Library, and the Royal Mint Museum[1] |
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Sarah Sophia Banks (28 October 1744 – 27 September 1818)[2] was an English antiquarian collector and the sister and collaborator of botanist Joseph Banks. She collected coins and medals and ephemera which are now historically valuable like broadsheets, newspaper clippings, visiting cards, prints, advertisements and playbills.[3][4][5][6][7]
- ^ The Library of Sarah Sophia Banks, Royal Mint Museum
- ^ Gascoigne, John (2004). "Banks, Sarah Sophia". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1301. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ 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, doi:10.1179/1936981612z.0000000002, S2CID 162390003
- ^ 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, vol. I, University of York