3-077-654 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Belvoir Castle, view from the Duke's Walk, 1890. Estate in Leicestershire, seat of the Duke of Rutland. 'Just down the slope in front of the castle is the charming little Statue Garden: you cannot see it from the glacis, though it is so near that you may almost smell the violets - here blooming in their multitudes in the first week in December. But flowers and cannon hardly go together, and, besides, one likes a garden to be quite private; so this one is ensconced beneath a little ridge of the hill. Statues of heathen deities and Chinese monsters stand among the violets and primroses, and the crowds of other flowers that make the little nook gay in their seasons; and there are pretty peeps of the valley between this and the other spurs of hill round which winds the "Duke's Walk." This is a path which takes you for some three miles by gardens, grottoes, wayside seats and springs, and so back to the castle'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.