• Title
  The Entrance, Fish River Caves, 1861 / George Pickering
• Creator
  George Ferris Pickering
• Call number
  ML 1396
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1861
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457032
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - image 24 x 34 cm., mounted in timber frame 42 x 51 cm.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled on reverse.
  
  This is possibly the earliest extant image of the Grand Arch of Jenolan Caves, known in 1861 as Fish River Caves. Painted prior to the period of uncontrolled tourism of the late 1880s, when vandalism/souveniring was common amongst visitors, this image depicts the Grand Arch when it was comparitively untouched and undamaged.
  
  Source: notes on ML file
  
  Before the 1870s, when an official guide was appointed, only intrepid or leisured travellers, with sufficient resources to sustain the week or so it took to get in and out, visited the Caves. Thus images of the Caves predating this time are extremely rare.
  
  Source: notes on ML file
  Digital order no:a1528190
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  G.P. / Oct 61 -- at lower right
• Conservation note
  
  Minor frame damage at lower centre
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  caves
  limestone
  stalactites
  
• Place
  Jenolan Caves (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (11 May - 12 August, 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3241973

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