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Fonthill

Print
1829 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Crostick (engraver)
Place of origin
Britain (engraved)

Line engraving on steel, printed on an individual sheet of paper, depicting Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleFonthill (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Line engraving on steel
Paper
Line Engraving
Brief description
Line engraving by T. Crostick for the title page of 'The Anniversary' (1829) depicting Fonthill. Great Britain, 1829.
Physical description
Line engraving on steel, printed on an individual sheet of paper, depicting Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire
Credit line
Bequeathed by Horace Mummery
Object history
Fonthill Abbey — also known as Beckford's Folly — was a large Gothic revival country house built around the turn of the 19th century at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt.
It was constructed near the site of the Palladian house, later known as Fonthill Splendens, which was constructed by his father, William Beckford, to replace the Elizabethan house that Beckford père had purchased in 1744 and which had been destroyed by fire in 1755. The abbey is now almost all demolished.
Production
The vast majority of drawings in the Mummery Bequest are after J. M. W. Turner. However, in the bequest catalogue, it is written that this title page depicting Fonthill for 'The Anniversary' in 1829, was not by him.
Subject depicted
Abbeys
Place depicted
Wiltshire
Other number
R338 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3631-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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