print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.132
- Title
- Object: In Fingals Cave, Staffa.
- Description
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View from near the entrance inside Fingal's Cave, with two boats at sea in the distance and birds flying in the sky; basalt columns at left, right, and hanging from ceiling; within a rectangular border; illustration to Ayton's 'Voyage round Great Britain', vol. III. 1817
Aquatint with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 303 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Date taken from Abbey.
For the 'Voyage Round Great Britain', see 1869,0410.1206
This appears to be a re-issue of a plate from volume III, with the date 'July 1 1817' erased and the number '21' added instead. For other examples of this type of altered state, see 1870,1008.139, 146, 148
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Voyage Round Great Britain
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.132