Title and statement of responsibility from note in pencil on verso. and Date based on the 1786 first publication date of Vathek, the novel for which this drawing is an illustration.
LWL 49 2387.2: Horace Walpole's copy with annotations and a pencil sketch on last fly-leaf., LWL 49 2387.2: 'Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews' (Allen Tracy Hazen), LWL 49 2387.2: G.D. Smith (N.Y.) to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Nov. 1927. Ex dono Annie Burr Jennings (Probably paid for the book), and Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews; no bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Many marginal notes by Horace Walpole, chiefly on the pictures of Blenheim and Ditchley. (See Horace Walpole to Montagu, 19 July 1760.) Very probably it was this volume that led Horace Walpole to record in his Description 'Accounts of Blenheim...'. With Horace Walpole's architectural sketch in pencil on last flyleaf; the words "loggias, arcades, stairs, terrasses" are written above image.
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.
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."
Title from text below image., Possibly designed to be bound with: Rutter, J. Delineations of Fonthill and its abbey, 1823. See: Millington, J. Engravings of Fonthill. In: The Beckford journal, v. 7 (Spring 2001), page 47., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman 1823.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 149), nearly half-length, standing to front, with head turned to look to left; his left arm held slightly apart from his body; wearing a buttoned coat, neckerchief tied in a bow, and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched lightly below image, in lower right., Printmaker, artist, and publisher from description of a presumably later state in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1864,1008.159.
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; circular image 7.2 cm, on sheet 12.1 x 9.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of imprint and text above image., and Window mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; circular image 7.2 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 12.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
