This ticket will admit two visitors on any two days during the view and is not transferable [graphic]Higham, Thomas, 1796-1844, printmaker[1823]engAdmission ticket to the Phillips showing of Fonthill Abbey in 1823. The image on the ticket, enclosed within a double-pointed oval border, depicts the eastern towers of the house with the central tower beyond. Beneath are blank panels, left and right, linked by a smaller central panal labeled 'Visitors.' At the bottom are two detachable tokens bearing the initials 'HP' and 'FA' within roundelsTitle from text within border of image.Probably a later state, with the text within the image border reengraved to allow admission of two visitors instead of three. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 91.Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of token from the lower right.