This ticket will admit two visitors on any two days during the view and is not transferable [graphic]
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15816367
Description
- Title
- This ticket will admit two visitors on any two days during the view and is not transferable [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Fonthill Abbey 1823
- Creator
- Higham, Thomas, 1796-1844, printmaker
- Contributor
- Whitwell, Stedman, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1823]
- Publication Place
- England
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- 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
- 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.
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." - Provenance
- Ex dono James T. Babb; January 1963;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 23.5 x 13.4 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Babb-Beckford no. 90
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Tickets
Steel engravings England 1823
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- steel engraving on card stock ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Fonthill Abbey. - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Dwellings - Subjects
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Beckford, William, 1760-1844 > Homes and haunts
Fonthill Abbey
Dwellings
England > 1823
19th century
Babb, James T. (James Tinkham), 1899-1968 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12659661
- Object ID (OID)
- 15816367
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