Shelley's Guitar: Contexts, Travels, and Adventures, 1815-2020

This is a map of important contexts, travels, and transformative moments involving "Shelley's Guitar," (Jane Williams's guitar, depicted in Percy Shelley's poem "With a Guitar -- to Jane." The map also details the hometowns, travels, and places associated with the people who handled the guitar and the guitarists and guitar-makers who have shaped its adventures and public image. The instrument was created by Pisan luthier Fernando Bottari, in about 1815-6, given by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Jane Williams, and donated by Captain Edward Silsbee, U.S.