This ticket will admit three visitors during the view and is not transferable [graphic]

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Title: This ticket will admit three visitors 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.
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.
Mounted to 31 x 24 cm on heavy blue paper with embossed border.
Provenance: Ex dono James T. Babb; January 1963;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.5 x 11.9 cm
Language: English

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): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Subjects: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 > Homes and haunts
Fonthill Abbey
Dwellings
England > 1823
19th century
Babb, James T. (James Tinkham), 1899-1968 > Ownership

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