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. Here, Turner's fascination with the sea is given full rein by Campbell's description of a steersman’s encounter with a crew of ghostly oarsmen. The crew, some battling to endure the storm, others drowning in the icy waters, are besieged by skeletal figures. The spirits which hover in the moon-lit sky are Turner's own invention, and do not appear in the poem.