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- Creator:
- Higham, Thomas, 1796-1844, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1823]
- Call Number:
- Babb-Beckford no. 91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Admission 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 roundels
- Alternative Title:
- Fonthill Abbey 1823
- Description:
- Title from text within border of image., For a probable later state with the text within the image border reengraved to allow admission of two visitors instead of three, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 90., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of both tokens from bottom edge., With contemporary annotations in ink, including the signature of auctioneer Harry Phillips and the names of the three visitors using the ticket., and Mounted to 31 x 24 cm on heavy blue paper with embossed border.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844 and Fonthill Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > This ticket will admit three visitors during the view and is not transferable [graphic]
- Creator:
- Higham, Thomas, 1796-1844, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1823]
- Call Number:
- Babb-Beckford no. 90
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Admission 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 roundels
- Alternative Title:
- Fonthill Abbey 1823
- Description:
- Title 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., Imperfect; the word "two" before "visitors" within image border has been mostly erased from sheet and the word "one" written in ink in its place, and the "s" at the end of "visitors" has been erased in both occurrences of that word., and With contemporary annotations in ink, including the signature of auctioneer Harry Phillips, the name of the visitor using the ticket, the ticket number "258," and the price "10/6."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844 and Fonthill Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > This ticket will admit two visitors on any two days during the view and is not transferable [graphic]