The Vyne Ramesses: 'Egyptian Monstrosities' in British country house collections

Apollo, April, 2003 by Tim Knox

(63) Muntz's drawings are now in the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut. See John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture ... in North America, Upper Saddle River, 1971, p. 143, plate 105. For Musntz's career, see Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects: 1600-1840, New Haven and London, 3rd edition, 1995, pp. 673-74.

(64) David Watkin, Thomas Hope, 1769-1831, and the Neoclassical Idea, London, 1968, pp. 48-49 and 115-18.

(65) Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration: Executed from Designs by Thomas Hope, London, 1807, pp. 26-27, plate VIII.

(66) M.L. Bierbrier, 'The Acquisition by the British Museum of Antiquities Discovered During the French Invasion of Egypt', in W.V. Davies (ed.), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T.G.H. James, British Museum Occasional Paper, no. 123, pp. 111-13.

(67) Thomas Rowlandson, The antiquarians, hand-coloured etching, 35 x 25.4 cm, 1805.

Tim Knox is Head Curator at the National Trust. He is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and was formerly Assistant Curator of the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawing Collection in London.