61. Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section - London And The Slave Trade William Beckford the younger, 17601844, was left £1 million in money and £100000 a year on his father’s death. The younger Beckford is famous for his http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/beckford.htm

Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section London and the Slave Trade This is Guildhall Library’s first exhibition for Black History Month, and we have begun by looking at the trans-Atlantic slave trade, particularly the profits made by Londoners, and the beginnings of the abolition movement in London The captions referred to in the text of the leaflet are available at the end of the text. Profits Britain had limited involvement with the slave trade in the 16 th and early 17 th centuries, though France and Portugal were more active. However from the late 17 th century onwards, a growing number of merchants in London and elsewhere became involved in the slave trade. The Royal African Company was founded in 1672 and was granted a monopoly in trading in slaves, though this was taken away in 1698. Between 1680 and 1686, an average of 5000 slaves a year were transported across the Atlantic The shareholders in the Royal African Company included 15 Lord Mayors, 25 sheriffs and 38 aldermen of the City of London (see Profit display case

62. Untitled Document The Grand Tour of William Beckford (17601844).Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books, 1986. A series of original letters describing the events of http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/grandtour_tourism/sources.html

Sources Beckford, William. The Grand Tour of William Beckford (1760-1844). Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1986. A series of original letters describing the events of his experience while abroad on the Grand Tour, including people he encountered places he visited, and his changing perspective of the world. Black, Jeremy. The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. Focuses more on the industry of tourism, than the educational aspects of the Grand Tour. Outlines everything from transportation to food to dangers or travel in Europe. Black, Jeremy. The British and the Grand Tour. London: Croom Helm, 1985. Bohls, Elizabeth. Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Boxer, Marilyn and Jean Quataert. Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1550 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Chard, Chloe. Grand and Ghostly Tours: The Topography of Memory Eighteenth Century Studies Hibbert, Christopher.

63. Artnet.com: Resource Library: Turner, J. M. W. Holloway, Thomas; Beckford, William (17601844). Beckford, William. Bicknell, Elhanan. Bicknell, Elhanan. Drummond, George A(lexander) (1827-1910) http://www.artnet.com/library/08/0866/T086656.asp

JavaScript is disabled within your browser, several site items like the menu will not show up correctly. Services The Grove Dictionary of Art Turner, J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) b London, 23 April 1775; d Chelsea [now in London], 19 Dec 1851). British painter and printmaker. He dominated British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, London, first as a topographical watercolourist and then within a few years as a painter of Sublime and historical landscapes. There are more than 45,000 articles in The Grove Dictionary of Art . To access the rest of this article, including the bibliography, subscribe to www.groveart.com . To find out more about this subject, click on a related article below and subscribe to www.groveart.com Turner, J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Diploma work Heritage c c ... c attributions Dayes, Edward book illustrations Rogers, Samuel Scott, Walter collaboration Gilpin: (2) Sawrey Gilpin Lewis (i) Smith, John Raphael Stothard: (1) Thomas Stothard ... Thomson, Rev. John collections c commentaries dealers Gambart, Ernest

64. Gnist.no William Beckford (17601844), the Fool of Fonthill, was the son of a Lord Mayor of London, fluent in seven languages and schooled in philosophy and law. http://www.gnist.no/vare.php?ean=9781845880101

65. Index Beckford, William (17601844). The History of Caliph Vathek. Bell, Robert (Editor). Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England http://www.eshu.cn/en3k/titles/index-b.htm

66. Portraits De Personnages Celebres : BEC Beckford (Henry). Peinture 1. Beckford (Suzanna). Peinture 1 (en 1756). Beckford (William)(17091770). Peinture 1. Beckford (William)(1760-1844). Peinture 1 http://www.onlipix.com/personnages/bec.htm

BEC A B C D ... Z BECCARIA (Cesare)(1738-1794) Peinture BECERRA-SCHMIDT (Gustavo)(1925-) Photo BECHE (Sir Henry Thomas de la)(1796-1855) Peinture BECHELLI CECCHI (Spasia Albertina) Photo BECHER (Eliza, Lady)(1791-1872) Peinture BECHER (Johann Joachim)(1635-1682) Peinture BECHER (Johannes)(1891-1958) Photo BECHET (Sidney)(1897-1959) Photo BECHHOFER (Robert) Photo Photo de groupe (au centre, avec Milton SOBEL et Shanti GUPTA BECHTEL (Stephen) Photo BECHTLE (Robert) Peinture (en 1963)/ (en 1964)/3 (en 1967) BECK (David) Peinture BECK (Joszef) Photo BECK (Julia) Photo BECK (Leonhard)(ca 1475-1542) Peinture BECK (Ludwig)(1880-1944) Photo /3 (A)/4/5/6/7 Sculpture BECKER (Charles) Photo BECKER (Gary S.) Photo BECKER (Hermann)(1887-) Photo BECKER (John) Photo BECKER (Martin, dit 'Tino')(1916-) Photo BECKER (Maximilian) Photo BECKER (Richard S.) Photo BECKETT (Margaret)(1943-) Peinture BECKETT (Samuel)(1906-1989) Photo Peinture Dessin Caricature BECKFORD (Henry) Peinture BECKFORD (Suzanna) Peinture (en 1756) BECKFORD (William)(1709-1770) Peinture BECKFORD (William)(1760-1844) Peinture BECKHAM (J. Crepps Wickliffe)(1869-1940)

67. Arts Minister Places Temporary Export Bar On Siena Marble Table William Beckford (17601844) was an exceptional amateur architect and designer who collaborated with makers of decorative objects, furniture, http://www.dezignare.com/whatshot/2004february/17.London.html

RESOURCES Interior Designers State Agencies Allied Services ... CORPORATE PRESS RELEASE 02-17-04 ARTS MINISTER PLACES TEMPORARY EXPORT BAR ON A SIENA MARBLE TABLE MADE FOR WILLIAM BECKFORD FOR LANSDOWN TOWER, BATH London, 17 February/GNN/ DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT News Release (011/04) issued by the Government News Network on 17 February 2004 Minister of State for the Arts, Estelle Morris, has placed a temporary bar on the export of a Siena marble table made for William Beckford, for the vestibule in Lansdown Tower, Bath, c.1828. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the table in the United Kingdom. William Beckford (1760-1844) was an exceptional amateur architect and designer who collaborated with makers of decorative objects, furniture, and buildings through his own sketches and instructions. This table, which was almost certainly to a design by Beckford, made in collaboration with the architect Henry Edmund Goodridge, is a rare survival from the first period of furnishing of Lansdown Tower, one of the most significant buildings of the

68. Les Baladins De La Tradition Translate this page en langue française actuellement en ligne sur William Beckford (1760-1844). Toute sa vie, William Beckford manifeste un grand intérêt pour la http://www.bldt.net/Om/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3

69. Les Baladins De La Tradition William Beckford (1760-1844) est connu essentiellement pour la singularité de Vathek (1786-7) qu’on attribue volontiers à la mode du http://www.bldt.net/Om/article.php3?id_article=283

70. VoS - Voice Of The Shuttle The Beckfordiana Website site for the online study of the life and works of William Beckford of Fonthill, 17601844; includes resources on Fonthill Abbey http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2787

71. Private Press Books Book Listing Nonesuch Press. 16 Great James Street, Bloomsbury. Beckford, William 17601844 Vathek by William Beckford. A new translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/privatepress/list.html

Special Collections Library Home Special Collections Catalogues Main Library ... Course Material Graphic Design and Visual Culture in Europe 1890-1945 Private Press Books in Special Collections Alphabetical listing of books by press Abbey Alcuin Ancora Anvil ... Windhover Abbey Press The book of Job London: Printed at the Abbey Press, Edinburgh, and published by George Bell, 1902. With drawings by Robert T. Rose. Sp Coll Hepburn 268. Alcuin Press Cavendish, George, 1500-1561? The life and death of Thomas Wolsey, the great Cardinal of England London: Alcuin Press, 1930. Three hundred and twenty-five copies of this edition, of which three hundred are for sale, have been printed by H.P.R. Finberg at the Alcuin Press ... This copy is numbered 101. Sp Coll q386. Ancora Press (Monash University) Monro, Hector The sonneteer's history of philosophy [Clayton[Vic.] : Ancora Press, 1981. Library's copy signed by the author. Sp Coll Bm 20-g.25 Anvil Press Tyndale, William, ca.1500-1536. The Newe Testamente M.D. XXVI. The Gospell of S. Matthew Lexington, Ky. : Anvil Press, 1955.

72. The River Barn - Visit The Surrounding Area Of Wiltshire rather, his son, also named William, who, over his long lifetime (17601844) built Those interested in William Beckford might also be interested in http://www.theriverbarn.co.uk/area.htm

"Fonthill Bishop - a village with a past " The village of Fonthill Bishop, 15 miles west of Salisbury, is one of Wiltshire's oldest villages with a fascinating history. The church was built around 1240, and is an excellent example of 13th century stonework. Although it was restored and rebuilt in the 19th century it still retains carvings and pews from the 13th century onwards. Visitors to the village should also visit the famous arch across the road from the church, built, it's said, by Inigo Jones for Lord Cottington who bought the Fonthill estate from the notorious Castlehaven family in around 1640 after a sexual scandal resulted in the 3rd Lord Castlehaven being beheaded on Tower Hill in London. This was not to be the estate's last brush with scandal. It was sold to William Beckford Sr in the 1750s. But the scandal does not concern him, rather, his son, also named William, who, over his long lifetime (1760-1844) built up a huge collection of books, paintings furniture and objets d'art which he housed at Fonthill. He was a writer of Gothic novels and travel books, a composer of music, a landscape designer, and exceedingly rich. However, his reputation was scandalous, mainly because of his sexuality. In 1784 he was forced to flee to the Continent when news of his affair with William Courtenay of Powderham. On his return he retired behind The Barrier, an eight-mile long wall surrounding all 519 acres of his estate at Fonthill, to live in isolation.

73. Accounts Of American Travelers To Italy Beckford, William , 17601844 Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (London, Printed for J. Johnson, http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/italia/viaggi2.html

Accounts of British Travelers to Italy In cooperation with Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sul Viaggio in Italia (CIRVI) See also: Accounts of American Travelers to Italy Voyages en Italie , accounts of French travelers to Italy Beckford, William Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1783) (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg) Note: Use browser search ( ctrl-f ) for references to Italy Belloc, Hilaire The Path to Rome (London, G. Allen, 1902) (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg) Butler, Samuel Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Gloucester: Sutton, 1881) (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg) Crawford, Mabel Sharman Life in Tuscany (Facsimiles, digitized by the University of Michigan) Dickens, Charles Pictures from Italy (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg) Dickens, Charles The Uncommercial Traveler (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg) Note: See especially Chapter 17. Douglas, Norman

74. Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation: Events Archive November 6, 2001, William Beckford, 17601844 An Eye for the Magnificent. A private tour of the exhibition at the Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative http://www.soane.org/foundation/f_eventarchive9701.htm

SOANE AND US EVENTS TRAVEL PROGRAM FUNDRAISING ... CONTACT EVENTS ARCHIVE PROGRAMS AND EVENTS, 1997 - 2001 November 27, 2001 The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors. November 6, 2001 William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent. A private tour of the exhibition at the Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, with project organizer Derek E. Ostergard, Founding Dean of the Bard Graduate Center. This, the first major exhibition on the life of William Beckford, the preeminent connoisseur of his time and one of the most influential collectors of the past 200 years of European and Asian art, brought together 175 extraordinary works of art spanning three centuries: paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs, European and Chinese silver and porcelain, Japanese lacquer and English, French and Italian furniture, drawn from private collections and from prestigious American and British institutions. A private reception followed the tour. November 2-5, 2001

75. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Library Of Congress Citations gsafd Other authors Beckford, William, 17601844. Vathek. English. Polidori, John William, 1795-1821. Vampyre. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cit/citlcbyron1.htm

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : Library of Congress Citations The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations LC Online Catalog Amazon Search Book Citations [First 20 Records] Author: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 178 Title: The Byron gallery of highly finished engravings, illustrating Lord Byron's works. With selected beauties from his poems. Elucidated by historical and critical notices; together with a sketch of his life, containing important and unpublished matter. By Robert B. McGregor, esq. Published: New York, R. Martin [c1849] Description: 3 p.l., 122 p. 45 pl., 6 port. (incl. front.) 29 x 23 cm. LC Call No.: PR4377 .M2 Notes: Issued in 17 parts. Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron. Baron, 1788-1824 Illustrations. Illustration of books 19th century. English poetry Illustrations. Other authors: McGregor, Robert B., ed. Control No.: 06030034 //r964 Author: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 178 Title: The prisoner of Chillon, and other poems. By Lord Byron. Edition: 1st ed. Published: London : J. Murray, 1816. Description: 3 p.l., 60 p. ; 24 cm. LC Call No.: PR4367 .A1 1816 Notes: Sonnet on Chillon The prisoner of Chillon Sonnet Stanzas to Darkness Churchill's grave The dream The incantation Prometheus Notes. Other authors: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Control No.: 24010133 //r95

76. ::Bath Baroque:: William Beckford by George Romney (National Trust Photographic Library). William? Beckford (17601844), one of the great eccentrics, is best known in http://www.bathbaroque.com/history.htm

King Charles II c.1663 Studio of John Michael Wright Music in Bath grew with the  tourist trade.  As luminaries began to come to take the waters, so  they sought entertainment for the intervening hours in various social  diversions, among which music was prominent.  In 1663, only three  years after the Restoration, Charles II came to Bath with his wife  Catherine of Braganza in a bid to alleviate her infertility.  (His  was never in doubt, given the plentiful and ever-increasing crop of  illegitimate children by a string of mistresses. Barbara Villiers c.1670 by Sir Peter Lely One of them,  Barbara Villiers, had a portrait painted of herself with Charles'  illegitimate son, in a pose improbably - and improperly - reminiscent of  the Virgin and Child. (Taken as such, it became an altarpiece in a Roman  convent until the nuns realised their mistake).  Catherine remained  lamentably barren, but one John Bannister, Director of the King's Violin  Band (an idea which Charles had stolen from the court of Louis XIV),  penned a charming string suite entitled "Music of the  Bath". "Comfort of Bath" by Rowlandson Allegedly, the musical tradition of Bath in the eighteenth century began  with a toad.   In the early 1700s, one Dr. John Radcliffe, Royal  Physician, was a fierce critic of the unhygienic conditions that prevailed  in the public baths (fed by the hot springs that gave the city its name).  He threatened to have the baths closed and (possibly more effectively) put  into the waters a toad, then widely believed to exude venom from its  skin.  To "counteract the poison" of the unfortunate amphibian, the  Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash suggested soothing it with music, and,  accordingly, started a subscription for an orchestra.

77. Associates And Influences Of Clark Ashton Smith Baudelaire, Charles (18211867) Charles Pierre Baudelaire Biography; Beckford, William (1760-1844)William Beckford The Fool of FonthillWilliam http://www.eldritchdark.com/misc/associates.html

Associates and Influences of Clark Ashton Smith Known Influences Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) [ Charles Pierre Baudelaire Biography Beckford, William (1760-1844)[ William Beckford: The Fool of Fonthill William Beckford's Fonthill Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1818) [ SELECTED POETRY OF THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?) [ Ambrose Bierce Blavatsky, H. P. (1831-1891)The Secret Doctrine [ Theosophy Library Online Browne, Thomas (1605-1682) [ Sir Thomas Browne page Chambers, Robert W. (1865-1933)[ Robert W. Chambers - Research Project Dunsany, Lord (1878-1957) [ Lord Dunsany Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) [ GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) [ Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904) [ Lafcadio Hearn Biography Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) [ Electronic resources related to G.M. Hopkins Huysmans, de Joris-Karl (1848-1866) [ Keats, John (1795-1821) [ Selected Poetry of John Keats Khayyam, Omar (Abu al-Fath Omar ben Ibrahim al-Khayyam)(1050-1122) [ The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam Lindsay, Vachel (1879–1931) [ Vachel Lindsay Lovecraft, H.P (1890-1937) [

78. Bibliography K-R Ostergard, Derek E. (ed) William Beckford 17601844 An Eye for the Magnificent (2001) Padfield, Peter Nelson s War (1976) http://www.cichw.net/pmbib1.html

A General Reading List This is an indiscriminate list of books and articles. Virtually everything published about Monamy since 1900 is remarkably inaccurate and unresearched, and some of the most absurd, irresponsible, and downright worst of the commentary is among the most recent. Although probably the most comical of these unhistorical and fantastical accounts was perpetrated by Harry Parker, in the Mariner's Mirror, 1911, there are others, almost equally silly, written within the last ten years. Nevertheless, I have included everything which I have at some point read or had reference to, and feel obliged again to underline the all-embracing nature of this compilation. A to D E to J K to R S to Z Keay, John The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company (1991) Keltie, John S. (ed) The Works of Daniel Defoe (1875) Kemp, Peter (ed) Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea Kennedy, Ludovic Menace: The Life and Death of the Tirpitz (1979) Kennedy, Paul The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery

79. Vol. II No. 5 THE PURLOINED AUTHOR New from Yale University Press is William Beckford, 17601844, AN EYE FOR THE MAGNIFICENT, edited by DEREK E. OSTERGARD. Beckford helped to define many of http://www.calamusbooks.com/newsletters/v2_5/

Vol. II #5 · December 02, 2001 THE PURLOINED AUTHOR Like a good mystery? Like two? The 26 November issue of THE NEW YORKER features a piece by staff writer TAD FRIEND . The piece begins with ARMISTEAD MAUPIN , who in 1993 receives a call from Vicki, whose adopted son, Anthony Godby Johnson , had been a regular phone correspondent with Maupin. Tony was just 15 years old, but had written a book, A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE . Toby had told Armistead that he had become HIV-positive as the result of the sexual abuse (passed around as a sexual victim in a homosexual sex ring) he had experienced when younger and now had AIDS symptoms. In her call, Vicki sounded desperate; she told Maupin that Toby didn't have long to live. It is the phone calls with Toby that became the set-up for Maupin's most recent novel, THE NIGHT LISTENER Toby survived that night and is still with us today. His book is now in its 5th paperback printing. Maupin isn't the only celebrity Toby befriended. In 1991, he wrote

80. Vol. II No. 4 KLIEG LIGHTS William Beckford (17601844) was an inordinately wealthy bisexual who could have become the first great English Romantic. But he ruined his career by having http://www.calamusbooks.com/newsletters/v2_4/

Vol. II #4 · November 24, 2001 KLIEG LIGHTS Splashed against the tumultuous Clinton years and framed by the clash between gay political might and anti-gay activism, ALL THE RAGE: THE STORY OF GAY VISIBILITY IN AMERICA presents the first authoritative guide to the growing gay public presence. From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the center stage of American public life. Lesbians and gay men are indeed everywhere, from TV sit-coms to Budweiser ads, from the White House to Disney's Magic Kingdom. Combining personal stories with incisive analysis, author SUZANNA DANUTA WALTERS chronicles this moment in our cultural history, arguing that we live in a time when gays are seen but not necessarily known.

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