Shenstone's walks, circa 1760.
- Creator:
- Hull, Thomas, 1728-1808
- Published/Created:
- circa 1760.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (30 p.) ; 21 x 17 cm.
- Notes:
- Printed description of the manuscript included with the collection.
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of 8 descriptions in poetry and prose of William Shenstone's Leasowes estate, each titled "Shenstone's Walks" and numbered 1 to 8. Addressed to "Zattoo," the narrator leads the reader through various walks on the grounds, commenting on the views and interspersing his narrative with verses inscribed on various objects he encounters, as when he explains to Zattoo, "From this Place the Path leads some few Yards, till it opens to a wide & very uneven, irregular Lawn--We shall recover our Path again, so let us quit it, while we go and contemplate that Urn, which is fixed in the Center, & thus inscribed..." The narrator also describes encountering "the Gothic Bower," which is inscribed with a poem "in old English characters" exhorting the reader not to look down upon those who rest contentedly there; and elsewhere, directs his listener's attention to an urn erected to "Miss Dolman, a first Cousin of W. Shenstone's" and to the elegy to her inscribed upon it.
- Topics:
- Architectural inscriptions
Elegiac verse, English
English poetry--18th century
Gardens, English
Gardens--Great Britain - Topics:
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Leasowes Garden (Halesowen, England) - Topics:
- Hull, Thomas,--1728-1808
Shenstone, William,--1714-1763 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Annotations
manuscripts (AAT)
poems (AAT) - Format:
- Text
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Call Number:
- Osborn c20
- Orbis Record:
- 7040491
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection
- oid pointer:
- 1392749
- Citation:
- Thomas Hull, Shenstone's Walks. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 10076042
- PID:
- digcoll:3723085
