wolfinthewood: Wolf's head in relief from romanesque tympanum at Kilpeck, Herefordshire (romanesque)
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Willow fountain, Chatsworth, Derbyshire

There is another greene walke and about the middle of it by the Grove stands a fine Willow tree, the leaves barke and all looks very naturall, the roote is full of rubbish or great stones to appearance, and all on a sudden by turning a sluice it raines from each leafe and from the branches like a shower, it being made of brass and pipes to each leafe but in appearance is exactly like any Willow...

Celia Fiennes (1662–1741)

written after a visit to Chatsworth in 1697

(see The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, ed. Christopher Morris)


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