Fonthill
Print
1829 (engraved)
1829 (engraved)
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Place of origin |
Line engraving on steel, printed on an individual sheet of paper, depicting Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire
Object details
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Title | Fonthill (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Line engraving on steel |
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. |
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Other number | R338 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest) |
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Accession number | E.3631-1946 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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