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Entrance to Peak Cavern, or Devil's Hole, Castleton...

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Artist

George Cumberland (1754-1848)

Collection

Yale Center for British Art

Image Link

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8706

Description

Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Inscription

Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink over graphite, centre: "Outward entrance to the Peake Cavern I at Castleton I showing the Cottage of the 3 old women, where I neither rain or Sun ever come - and the I Packthread Spinners works within the cave I far to right below in darkness lies that I small entrance into the great caverns that I extend near half a mile under the limestone I Rock I GC."; in graphite on verso, right: "Box by waggon - of Jos Heblesson of I Manchester - to be left at I Barmaclough the brown Horse near I Chapel in Fells park I To be forwarded to Mr. Barbor of the Shakespear".

Descriptive Medium

Watercolour and graphite

Image Licence

Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art

Image Credit

image credit Yale Center for British Art

Location

Peak Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire, England

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