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Further note for anyone inclined to help me understand what is happening. If I increase the length of the figure caption by several lines (keeping everything else the same) the page that had been unexpectedly rotated to landscape appears correctly in portrait orientation.

Sorry to have bothered you with uninteresting code - one never knows. Thanks (I guess) for the suggestion (sans explanation).

I'm working on a long document that has many figures. Some I need to rotate (landscape) but most are just portrait. My document preamble is:

\documentclass[11pt,authoryear]{article}
\usepackage{pifont,natbib,geometry,fleqn,graphicx,txfonts} % Elsevier
\usepackage{lscape} % Embedded landscape ...