Grimm shows the ravine of magnesium limestone cliffs, caves and fissures known as Creswell Crags on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border. The site, though relatively inaccessible to the eighteenth-century traveller, was known for the remains of pre-historic beasts and cave art recently discovered in them.

Grimm worked up this watercolour from drawings made on a visit to a local patron. It is a good example of the 'tinted' drawing produced by late eighteenth-century topographers. Careful pencil underdrawing and layers of grey wash are superimposed with 'local' colour and pen outlines to clarify form.