William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts by Robert Gemmett

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett ebook
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Page: 336
ISBN: 9781781554838
Publisher: Fonthill Media

The Fonthill Legend: William Beckford's Landscape Architecture 103. I first called by appointment on his ingenious architect, Mr. Catalogue of the papers of William Beckford, 1772-1857 of travel-writings, the builder of Fonthill Abbey, and an important collector of paintings, objets d'art and books. €�The Influence of Landscape and Architecture on the Composition of Vathek. Yet this is not to conclude that Beckford's artistic muse remained unstirred all this while. All the pictures, whether historical, landscape, or low life, have this unique character of excellence. Initially this was built as a landscape feature, and it eventually developed into an extraordinary home for the arch-Romantic William Beckford, who supervised its design and construction. In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. William Beckford (1760–1844) was the son of Alderman William Beckford a huge Gothic folly at Fonthill to designs by the architect James Wyatt (1746–1813). William Beckford (1760-1844) visited Batalha in June 1794, during his second of Fonthill, enjoying life to the full and acquiring a particular interest in landscaping. Fatma Moussa FOTHERGILL, Brian. €� Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek." In two volumes. September 15, 1796: ”William Beckford, Esq. The landscape and architectural designs of this new mode are grouped under the London, 1749-76, various architects, Horace Walpole patron; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796-1813, James Wyatt archtitect, William Beckford patron. Nature, history, science, politics, society, and the arts were developed and popularized. (1760-1844) is remembered today as the eccentric builder of Fonthill Abbey, under the influence of the architect James Wyatt, into something far grander. Ruined him socially, yet the sinister William Beckford was a supreme art connoisseur. College Art Journal 12 (1953): 128-131. 108) an architectural drawing probably by Beckford and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape (New Haven & London, 1986), plates 84-5. English architect chiefly remembered for his Romantic country houses, especially the extraordinary Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey.