Staffa, Fingal's Cave

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Staffa, Fingal's Cave
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Staffa, Fingal's Cave - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist J. M. W. Turner
Year1832
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions99.8 cm× 121.3 cm(39.3 in× 47.8 in)
Location Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Staffa, Fingal's Cave is an 1832 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It features a view of Fingal's Cave on the Scottish island of Staffa in the Hebrides. Turner worked on the painting at his studio in Queen Anne Street in London following a visit to Scotland in 1831. [1]

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It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1832 at Somerset House. The painting is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut, having been donated by Paul Mellon in 1978. [2]

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