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Scottish Artists 1750-1900: From Caledonia to the Continent: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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    WILLIAM LEIGHTON LEITCH (1804-83)

    Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa

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    RCIN 919679

    Leitch's watercolour records Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's visit to Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa, one of the Inner Hebrides, on their tour of the west coast of Scotland in 1847. The sea cave, formed entirely of hexagonal jointed basalt columns, inspired Felix Mendelssohn's overture, The Hebrides, composed after a visit in 1829.
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