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BECKFORD, William (1759-1844) -- MADDOX, Willes (1813-1853). Views of the Lansdown Tower Bath, the favourite edifice of the late William Beckford. Bath: Edmund English Junr. & London: Thomas McLean, 1844. 2° (600 x 427mm). Mounted chromolithographic title with hand-coloured vignette, lithographic dedication, 13 hand-coloured lithograpic plates mounted on 12 card leaves, 6 tinted lithographs in text, by C.J. Richardson after Maddox. (Title slightly soiled, text heavily waterstained and somewhat spotted, only light marginal soiling to plates.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco gilt, gilt edges (upper joints slightly cracked, extremities lightly rubbed, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: plate captions in pencil – Charles Francis Bell (1871-1966, art historian; booklabel).
Completed in 1827 to a neo-classical design by Henry Goodridge, the Tower had been both a library and a retreat for Beckford, who was an early patron of Maddox. The artist later gained a reputation for painting the portraits of eminent Turks, and took up an invitation from the Sultan to work in Istanbul. Abbey Scenery 420.
Completed in 1827 to a neo-classical design by Henry Goodridge, the Tower had been both a library and a retreat for Beckford, who was an early patron of Maddox. The artist later gained a reputation for painting the portraits of eminent Turks, and took up an invitation from the Sultan to work in Istanbul. Abbey Scenery 420.
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