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Scott's Poetical Works

Print
1834 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Line engraving on steel (1st state), printed on paper, depicting a vignette of Fingal's Cave


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Scott's Poetical Works (series title)
  • Fingal's Cave, Staffa (Vignette) (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Line engraving on steel
Brief description
Line engraving on steel by E. Goodall depicting a vignette of Fingal's Cave on Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, for the publication 'Scott's Poetical Works' (Cadell), after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner. Great Britain, 1834.
Physical description
Line engraving on steel (1st state), printed on paper, depicting a vignette of Fingal's Cave
Credit line
Bequeathed by Horace Mummery
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Literary reference'Scott's Poetical Works' - Sir Walter Scott
Bibliographic reference
Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, part of a National Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns within a Paleocene lava flow, similar in structure to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and those of nearby Ulva. Sir Walter Scott described Fingal's Cave as "one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld. It exceeded, in my mind, every description I had heard of it… composed entirely of basaltic pillars as high as the roof of a cathedral, and running deep into the rock, eternally swept by a deep and swelling sea, and paved, as it were, with ruddy marble, [it] baffles all description."
Other number
R512 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest)
Collection
Accession number
E.4413-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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