Queen Mab's Cave
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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Queen Mab's Cave

after 1846
Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851) visual detail
ArtistJoseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851)
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The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). Cleveland, Kinney and Levan Building. Illustrated Catalogue of the Cleveland Art Loan Exposition under the Auspices of the Cleveland School of Art (1913), no. 170b, Turner, lent by J. H. Wade. cma. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1936), no. 250, Turner, pl. lx. Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. Exhibition of English Eighteenth Century Paintings (1937), Turner, no cat. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute. A Survey of British Paintings (1938), no. 50, Turner. New York, Brooklyn Museum. Landscape; An Exhibition of Paintings (1945-46), no. 41, Turner. Art Gallery of Toronto; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada. An Exhibition of Paintings by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), no. 14.

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This work is a reduced copy of a painting first exhibited by Turner at the British Institution in 1846 that passed, with the rest of his immense bequest to the nation, into the collections of the National Gallery and finally, in 1954, the Tate Gallery. Several lines from Shakespeare's <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> and Turner's manuscript poem "Fallacies of Hope" were appended to the title in the British Institution catalogue, but they did little to explicate the nearly unintelligible concoction of fairies and Welsh ruins that make up this composition. Copies of <em>Queen</em> <em>Mab's Cave</em> by anonymous artists are abundant.

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