Author: William BeckfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Costly and Interesting Effects of Fonthill Abbey
Author: William BeckfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Author: William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Galignani's Messenger
Author: Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837
Author: Edward Croft-MurrayPublisher: Transatlantic Arts
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Prices of Books
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description