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Special Collections Material
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From Rutter's
Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey
(1823) "The ceiling beams are carried at their ends by carved and gilt corbels, and the hangings are of garter-blue silk damask, embellished with gold mouldings. The burnished gilt chairs are covered with the same. In the centre of the room, upon a carpet of extraordinary costliness, stands a table of Egyptian marble, the largest slab of the kind in Europe." (pages 30-31)
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| Fonthill Abbey: The Grand Drawing Room. (Plate 5: Engraved by J. Cleghorn) |
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