print
- Museum number
- 1867,1214.408
- Title
- Object: Entrance to Forth Yr Ogof Caveer, Vale of Neath
- Description
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A mountain stream flowing over boulders from an arched cave in a rock face over-grown with feathery, hanging foliage, with a small shooting party, men, women, a couple of dogs and a rifle, picknicking on the left bank.
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1809-1821 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Not in Abbey.
This lithograph was one of set of 6 published c. 1820 in "Sketches of Scenery in South Wales" printed at Moser's and Harris' Lithographic Press, 7 Cromer Street, Brunswick Square priced at 7 shillings and 6 pence. There is a copy of the "Sketches" in the Bodleian. Loose impressions are kept elsewhere in the BM collection, see 1867,1214.408 to 413.
For Delamotte see Bernard Morris, "George Orleans Delamotte: a South Wales Sketchbook c. 1816-1865," West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea, 2007.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,1214.408