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Medium: Oil
Genre: Landscape
Artwork Size: 90cm (w) x 40cm (h)
Uploaded on: Monday 19th May, 2014
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7th of August 1829 - Mendelssohn's party lands on Staffa
My love of music and Britain’s natural wonders inspired me to attempt to depict the moment at which "The Hebrides" overture was born. The composer and his travelling companion Klingemann enter Fingal's Cave while men from the steamer control the boat in the Atlantic swell. Klingmann wrote:
"We were put out into boats and lifted by the hissing sea up the pillar stumps to the celebrated Fingal's Cave. A greener roar of waves surely never rushed into a stranger cavern - its many pillars making it look like the inside of an immense organ, black and resounding, and absolutely without purpose, and quite alone, the wide grey sea within and without."
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