Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870, British

after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Title:
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
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)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "R.512"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "1833 | Scotts' Poems 2nd state"
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:
landscape | island | cave | sea | ocean | water | basalt | geology | waves (natural events) | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
Europe | Scotland | Staffa | Argyll and Bute | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)

The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)

The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)

Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)

Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text), , New Haven, 2006, [ p. 63], V 1699:1 (YCBA)

Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 23, 28, V 1699 (YCBA)

Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 34, 48, no. 130, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA)

Sebastian Mitchell, Celtic Postmodernism : Ossian and Contemporary Art, , Translation and Literature, vol. 22, November 2013, pp. 422, 424, Available online (Orbis) Edinburgh Unisersity Press

Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 17, no. 134, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:39548