Black Marble Quarry at Ashford, Derbyshire
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Lovell Reeve
English, 1814–1865
Black Marble Quarry at Ashford, Derbyshire
From "The Stereoscopic Cabinet, or Monthly Packet of Pictures for the Stereoscope", Lovell Reeve Publ., April, 1860, No.VI
1860
Albumen silver print
7.1 x 7.1 cm. each on 8.5 x 17.4 cm. mount
Purchase
1986.0947.0016
Inscriptions verso-(printed label) "Black marble quarry at Ashford, Derbyshire.
Interior of a quarry of the peculiar black marble used for making
mantelpiece ornaments, clocks, etc. Ashford is about two miles from
Backwell, and there are several clever artificers in the use of this
marble in the neighbourhood. Objects of all kinds, made of it, are
sold in Derby. The marble is a carbon-coloured limestone called
Lucullite, from the quantity of it which Lucullus imported into Rome,
from an island in the Nile"
Interior of a quarry of the peculiar black marble used for making
mantelpiece ornaments, clocks, etc. Ashford is about two miles from
Backwell, and there are several clever artificers in the use of this
marble in the neighbourhood. Objects of all kinds, made of it, are
sold in Derby. The marble is a carbon-coloured limestone called
Lucullite, from the quantity of it which Lucullus imported into Rome,
from an island in the Nile"
