This etching of "The Cascade near Matlock Bath Derbyshire"
was published in the Lady's Magazine. I cannot provide an accurate
date. However, the original was published in "The Modern Universal
British Traveller or, a New, Complete, and Accurate tour Through England,
Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands" by Charles
Burlington, David Llewellyn, and Alexander Murray, published by J.
Cooke, London, 1779... The articles respecting England, by Charles
Burlington, Esq.
There's
a similar image elsewhere on this website, in the "Bemrose
Guide".
A view of a smaller cascade, this
time from near Museum Parade, was published in Henry
Moore's "Picturesque Excursions From Derby to Matlock Bath,
1818". The Cascade here is also described by Moore.
Whilst this is almost exactly the same as the version published
in 1779 there is one minor difference which is the length of
the
fisherman's rod. A third version, " A Prospect of that
Beautiful Cascade below Matlock Bath" published in 1743,
shows three women
in crinolines with a male on the opposite bank close to the bottom
of the Cascade.
The remnants of this cascade can still be seen from Lovers' Walks today,
just to the north of the Woodland Terrace houses on Derby Road near
the former Matlock Bath school building. Like other springs that
were discovered in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,
it is now enclosed in a pipe. This one travels under the A6 from
the New Bath Hotel. Although there are a number of views of the New
Bath and this stretch of the river taken from Cat Tor, the cascade
is hidden by trees.
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