The Scottish National Gallery has the only set of Turner’s literary vignettes that remain together in one collection, his twenty illustrations for ‘The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell’ . These were made to be engraved in Edward Moxon’s edition of Campbell’s poems, published in 1837. A copy of this book is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery Print Room. In his poem, Campbell imagined the dying words of the last man on earth. In the absence of any other humans to speak to, he addresses the waning sun. In the sky, Turner introduces a cross to symbolise the last man’s immortal soul; it is surrounded by the heavenly host, and a spirit rises up beneath the man. At the lower left are pyramids, presumably signifying the antiquity of humanity.