Sarah Bishop's Cave
PhotographerPhotographed by
Marie Kendall
American, 1854 - 1943
Dateabout 1900
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on cardboard
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 11/16 x 7 13/16in. (11.9 x 19.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 4 11/16 x 7 13/16in. (11.9 x 19.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 9 x 10 13/16in. (22.9 x 27.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 4 11/16 x 7 13/16in. (11.9 x 19.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 9 x 10 13/16in. (22.9 x 27.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionA woman in a dress and flat-crowned hat leans over a low stone wall to look into the mouth of a cave. The immediate surrounding landscape is visible.
Object number2000.178.180
InscribedVerso, top left, written in black ink: "Sarah Bishop's Cave / near Ridgefield, Conn. -- 1904 / Taken probably 1902 or 1903"Top left, written in pencil: "15 Bolton"
Right, written in pencil: "Hist Soc"
Right, written in pencil: "5"NotesSubject note: Sarah Bishop was a hermit who lived in a cave on West Mountain, straddling Ridgefield, Connecticut and North Salem, New York, during the Revolutionary War. She lived there until her death in 1810.
Collections
- Women Photographers
On View
Not on view
