Loading a Timber Wagon in the Grounds of Cave Castle, Yorkshire

This painting depicts Cave Castle in the village of South Cave, situated about thirteen miles from Hull. Arnald's view shows the surrounding parklands across to the Humber Estuary and towards Lincolnshire. Originally built on the site of an old castle, the building, the only one of its kind still in existence in East Yorkshire, is shown shortly after its renovation in 1791 when the owner, Henry Boldero Barnard, carried out enlargements and 'castellations' in the neo-Gothic style. Arnald, who specialised in such topographical views, travelled extensively throughout the British Isles, Ireland and France. He is known to have visited Yorkshire on a number of occasions and undertook several commissions for his patrons, the Boldero Barnard family. They were an old, well established family of landowners who settled in East Yorkshire in the 13th century. It is possible that this work is the same Cave Castle, Yorkshire exhibited by Arnald at the Royal Academy in London in 1809.