Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Collection of Approximately 1,350 Catalogues
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: The Townshend Heirlooms Comprising Important Pictures by Old Masters and Family Portraits ...
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ligon Family and Connections
Author: W. D. Ligon, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740406775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 943
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.
Family & Friends
Author: Andrew W. MoorePublisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Published to coincide with the Norfolk Portraits exhibition at the Castle Museum, Norwich, in September 1992, this book is a history of portraiture in Norfolk.
True Ghost Stories
Author: Gladys Marchioness TownshendPublisher:
ISBN: 9781859580356
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Author: William CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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