Evidence: | 'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did not the garden and other appurtenances atone for it, it would hardly be worth the trouble of going to see, but those indeed are well worthy of a traveller's Notice. This garden contains within it variety enough to satisfy a Sir William Chalmers [sic], and had I not read his account of what a garden ought to be, I should not venture to express all I saw under that single appellation, but tho' it is far from being so extensive as his plan, yet it contains a great deal more than his three natural notes of earth, air and water, water, earth and air.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1772 and 31 Dec 1776 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Janet Schaw |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sir William Chambers |
Title: | A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening |
Genre: | Arts / architecture, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1772 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19061 | |
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Author: | Janet Schaw | |
Editor: | Evangeline Walker Andrews with Charles MacLean Andrews | |
Title: | Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 1934 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 245-246 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Janet Schaw, Evangeline Walker Andrews with Charles MacLean Andrews (ed.), Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 (New Haven, 1934), p. 245-246, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19061, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Source eds conjecture that Schaw aged between 35 and 40 at time of writing. |
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