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Turner’s ‘Staffa, Fingal’s Cave’: exporting ‘indistinctness’
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 330-341
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Warrell, Ian (Warrell, Ian)
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Illustrations
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1. James Lenox, by Francis Grant. 1848. Oil on canvas. (New York Public Library)
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10. Cotopaxi, by Frederic Edwin Church. 1862. Oil on canvas, 121.9 by 215.9 cm. (Detroit Museum of Arts; Bridgeman Images).
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11. Bally-burgh Ness, by J.M.W Turner. c.1835. Watercolour and gouache, with scratching-out, on cream wove paper, 8.3 by 13.5 cm. (© President and Fellows of Harvard College; Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums).
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2. Staffa, Fingals' Cave, by J.M.W. Turner. 1832. Oil on canvas, 90.8 x 121.3 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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3. Van Tromp's Shallop, at the Entrance of the Scheldt (previously mistitled Van Tromp Returning after the Battle off the Dogger Bank) by J.M.W. Turner. 1832 (previously misdated 1833). Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 120.8 cm. (Tate).
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4. Fingal's Cave, by J.M.W. Turner, c.1832. Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, 29.2 x 21.6 cm. (Private collection).
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5. North wall of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery, Showing Turner's Staffa, Fingal's Cave in its original frame/ c.1882. Photograph. (New York Public Library Archives).
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6. Turner's Watteau Study by Fresnoy's rules (1831) in its original frame. Photograph. (Tate).
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7. The New York and London packet ship 'Victoria'. 1000 tons (entering New York Harbour), by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton. 1843. Hand-coloured lithograph, 26.2 by 40.1 cm. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich).
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8. Lenox Library, from the west, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, by H.N. Tuimann & Co. 1909. Gelatin silver print. 35.5 x 27.8 cm. (Museum of the City of New York).
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9. Detail of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery Digital Recreation, showing the north and west walls. (From S. Webster and D. Schwittek, eds: ‘A digital recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: a contribution to the early history of public art museums in the United States’, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17, no.2 (2018)).