View in Peak Hole after passing the first river [graphic]

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Title: View in Peak Hole after passing the first river [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Allen, Michael, active 1795-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: April 15, 1797.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
Abstract: Small groups of men, some holdling candles, stand at the base of a cave looking up at stalactites. An opening at the top allows another group of tourists to look down into the cave, Peak Cavern (in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales). The group inside the cave includes a dog and a small boy
Description: Title etched above image.
Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark.
Numbered 'Plate 95' in upper left corner.
Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.8 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 21.0 x 27.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Caving
Spelunkers
Caves
Rivers
Sightseers
Stalactites & stalagmites
Subjects: Caving > England
Spelunkers
Caves
Rivers
Sightseers
Stalactites & stalagmites
England > 1797
England > London > 1797

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