| Matlock Bath from Lovers' Walk, 1799 |
| Matlock and Matlock Bath, Eighteenth and Ninteenth Century Photographs, Postcards, Engravings & Etchings |
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A Perspective View of
MATLOCK BATH in DERBYSHIRE
as it appears from the Grove called Lovers Walk |
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Here is a truly lovely late eighteenth century engraving of Matlock Bath, which
was engraved for and published in "The Modern Universal British Traveller".
The buildings shown centre right are clearly the Old Bath Hotel. As Moore wrote
in 1818 - "This is an extensive range of building ... where every accommodation
will be found. Here are also assembly and billiard rooms for the amusement
of the company. This is the primitive bath, and may be regarded as the nucleus,
around which grew the present extended erections of Matlock Bath."
 "Picturesque
Excursions From Derby to Matlock Bath"
The engraver was D. Jenkins.
The French Revolution and then Napoleonic Wars meant that people could not travel
to the Continent, so tourism flourished at home. Illustrated guide books were
produced to entice people to the various attractions within Great Britain.
Matlock
& Matlock Bath Tourist Guides, transcripts & illustrations |
Deborah Bensted has very generously provided the image.
It is taken from: "The Modern Universal British Traveller; or, A new,
complete, and accurate tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the neighbouring
islands ..." The articles respecting England, by Charles Burlington,
Esq. Such as relate to Wales, by David Llewellyn Rees, Gent. And those descriptive
of Scotland, by Alexander Murray, M.A., etc.
Published London: J. Cooke, 1779.
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