Fingal's Cave first hit the pop chart in 1830 and soon ... Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner, and the most famous Victorian of all, Queen Victoria herself. All of them were overwhelmed by the ...

Fingal's Cave is my nemesis. But this time I was ready ... as well as painter J. M. W. Turner, fantasy writer Jules Verne, and poet John Keats. Their recurring theme was the cave as a natural ...

In summer, it is possible to see mists and clouds form inside the cave. The novelist Sir Walter Scott said of Fingal’s Cave: “The most extraordinary place I ever beheld; it baffles all ...

That's what Turner and Emin both understand: to be in awe is an act of submission. Staffa, Fingal's Cave (ca. 1831–32), my favorite Turner on view, features roiling waves that break in roughly ...