The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Queen Mab's Cave
after 1846
imitator of Joseph Mallord William Turner
(British, 1775–1851)
Unframed: 73 x 89.5 cm (28 3/4 x 35 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1036
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Queen Mab is a miniature fairy from English folklore who inspires dreams and plays pranks on people during the night. Shakespeare refers to her in both Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Description
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 A Midsummer Night's Dream 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 Queen Mab's Cave by anonymous artists are abundant.- Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 612-613, Vol. II, no. 214"The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12. Mentioned: p. 3 www.jstor.org
- Art Gallery of Toronto; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada. An Exhibition of Paintings by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), no. 14.New York, Brooklyn Museum. Landscape; An Exhibition of Paintings (1945-46), no. 41, Turner.Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute. A Survey of British Paintings (1938), no. 50, Turner.Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. Exhibition of English Eighteenth Century Paintings (1937), Turner, no cat.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).cma. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1936), no. 250, Turner, pl. lx.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.
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