Queen Mab's Cave

Queen Mab's Cave
Queen Mab's Cave
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1846
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	122.6 cm × 92.1 cm (48.3 in × 36.3 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London
Accession	N00548
Website	www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-queen-mabs-cave-n00548

ArtistJ. M. W. Turner

Year1846

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions122.6 cm × 92.1 cm (48.3 in × 36.3 in)

Queen Mab's Cave is an 1846 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner.^[1] It depicts a view which references the character of Queen Mab by William Shakespeare and likely also inspired by the 1813 poem Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley, although it does not actually illustrate scenes from either author.^[2]

It was exhibited at the British Institution's annual exhibition of 1846.^[3] The painting was part of the Turner Bequest of 1856 and is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico.^[4] A smaller replica is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.^[5]

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Paintings	Lambeth Palace (1790) The Rising Squall (1792) Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800) Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800) Diana and Callisto (c. 1796) Fishermen at Sea (1796) Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797) Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797) Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797) Dunstanburgh Castle (1798) Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798) Buttermere Lake (1798) Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798) Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798) Shipping by a Breakwater (1798) Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798) View of a Town (c. 1798) Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799) Self-Portrait (c. 1799) View in Wales (c. 1799–1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800) Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800) View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805) The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1800) Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801) Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather (1802) The Tenth Plague of Egypt (1802) Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland (1802) Jason (1802) Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802) Bonneville, Savoy (1803) Calais Pier (1803) The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon (1803) Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour (1803) Boats Carrying Out Anchors (1804) The Destruction of Sodom (1805) The Deluge (1805) The Shipwreck (1805) Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805) Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1806) The Thames at Weybridge (1806) Walton Bridges (1806) Cliveden on Thames (1807) A Country Blacksmith (1807) Linlithgow Palace (1807) Newark Abbey (1807) Sun Rising through Vapour (1807) Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807) The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807) The Battle of Trafalgar (1808) The Forest of Bere (1808) Pope's Villa at Twickenham (1808) Margate (1808) Sheerness as Seen from the Nore (1808) The Unpaid Bill (1808) View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808) Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand (1809) The Garreteer's Petition (1809) Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank (1809) London from Greenwich Park (1809) Ploughing Up Turnips (1809) The Trout Stream (1809) Sun Setting through Vapour (1809) The Fish Market at Hastings Beach (1810) High Street, Oxford (1810) The Wreck of a Transport Ship (1810) Apollo and Python (1811) Somer Hill, Tonbridge (1811) Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811) Hulks on the Tamar (1811) St Mawes at the Pilchard Season (1812) Teignmouth (1812) Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) Frosty Morning (1813) Dido and Aeneas (1814) Dido building Carthage (1815) Crossing the Brook (1815) The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817) Raby Castle (1817) Dort or Dordrecht (1818) The Field of Waterloo (1818) Richmond Hill (1819) Entrance of the Meuse (1819) Rome, from the Vatican (1820) George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh (1822) The Battle of Trafalgar (1822) What You Will! (1822) The Bay of Baiae (1823) The Harbour of Dieppe (1825) Cologne (1826) Forum Romanum (1826) Mortlake Terrace (1826) Port Ruysdael (1826) Rembrandt's Daughter (1827) Scene in Derbyshire (1827) The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828) Chichester Canal (1828) East Cowes Castle (1828) Palestrina (1828) Regulus (1828) View of Orvieto (1828) Vision of Medea (1828) The Banks of the Loire (1829) The Loretto Necklace (1829) Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829) Calais Sands at Low Water (1830) The Evening Star (1830) Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830) Pilate Washing his Hands (1830) Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831) Lifeboat and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel (1831) Van Tromp's Barge Entering the Texel (1831) Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple (1832) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832) The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832) Helvoetsluys (1832) Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1832) Quillebeuf, Mouth of the Seine (1833) Rotterdam Ferry-Boat (1833) The Fountain of Indolence (1834) The Golden Bough (1834) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834) St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834) Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland (1834) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) A Disaster at Sea (1835) Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835) Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835) Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835) Juliet and her Nurse (1836) The Parting of Hero and Leander (1837) The Fighting Temeraire (1838) Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish (1838) Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus (1838) Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum (1839) Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839) The Slave Ship (1840) Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight (1840) Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840) Venice from the Giudecca (1840) Schloss Rosenau (1841) Campo Santo (1842) Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa (1842) The Blue Rigi (1842) The Red Rigi (1842) Peace – Burial at Sea (1842) War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842) Light and Colour (1843) The Opening of the Wallhalla (1843) St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina (1843) The Sun of Venice Going to Sea (1843) Venice, Maria della Salute (1844) Approach to Venice (1844) Venice Quay, Ducal Palace (1844) Ostend (1844) Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844) The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth (1845) Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845) Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845) Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845) Whalers (1845) Whalers Entangled in Flaw Ice (1846) Queen Mab's Cave (1846) The Hero of a Hundred Fights (1847) The Wreck Buoy (1849) Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas (1850) The Departure of the Fleet (1850) The Beacon Light (unknown)
Prints	Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)
Museums	Sandycombe Lodge
Related	Turner Bequest The Painter (2011 play) Mr. Turner (2014 film) Thomas Price Turner Turner Prize Turner Contemporary
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