Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire;
Author : John Britton
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Architecture
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Author : John Britton
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Architecture
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Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1787350452
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.
Author : Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806316697
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Author : Richard NEWTON (D.D., Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford.)
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 1829
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Author : James Moore
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0752466763
During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be translated into adjustments to the guidance fins, steering the projectile to its target. Pigeon-Guided Missiles reveals this and other fascinating tales of daring plans from history destined to change the world we live in, yet which ended in failure, or even disaster. Some became the victims of the eccentric figures behind them, others succumbed to financial and political misfortune, and a few were just too far ahead of their time. Discover why the great groundnut scheme cost British taxpayers £49 million, why the bid to build Minerva, a whole new country in the Pacific Ocean, sank, and why the first Channel Tunnel (started in 1881, over a century before the one we know today) hit a dead end.
Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892365625
The Getty Museum’s large and exceptional collection of oriental porcelain embellished with Parisian gilt bronze or silver is comprehensively illustrated in this revised catalogue. The European practice of mounting exotic objects such as oriental porcelain dates from the Middle Ages and found its height of expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains reached the West in considerable quantities. To meet the growing taste for such objects in fashionable Parisian society, marchands-merciers—guild members who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, antique dealer, and picture dealer—devised ingenious settings in silver and gilt bronze for oriental porcelains, adapting their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. With the publication of this catalogue, the beauty and rarity with which buyers of these pieces were so enamored is vividly brought to life.
Author : John Rylands Library
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : John Rylands Library
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Rare books
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Author : Peter Lindfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1783271272
Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
Author : Manchester (England). Joint Architectural Committee
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Architecture
ISBN :