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- Title:
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1833
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving, second state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (36.8 × 26.7 cm), Plate: 8 1/4 × 6 inches (21 × 15.2 cm), Chine collé: 7 7/8 × 5 5/8 inches (20 × 14.3 cm), Image: 4 3/4 × 3 1/4 inches (12.1 × 8.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "R.512"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "1833 | Scotts' Poems 2nd state"
Lettered below image, lower left: "J.M.W. Turner R.A."; lower right: "E. Goodall"; lower center: "Staffa | EDINBURGH; PUBLISHED 1833, BY ROBERT CADELL, | AND MOON, BOYS & GRAVES, LONDON"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13669
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- basalt | cave | geology | island | landscape | ocean | rocks (landforms) | sea | water | waves (natural events)
- Associated Places:
- Argyll and Bute | Europe | Scotland | Staffa | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:39548
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