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315: 240: 38: 450: 409: 402: 2086: 1240: 354:, her masts and rigging were removed before her sale and journey to the breaker's yard. All of her cannon, anchors and assorted hardware had been removed and salvaged for the navy to use as spare parts. She was towed by two tugboats, not just one, and in the other direction (the sun sets in the west, while the Thames estuary is at the river's eastern end). One of the tugboats, that depicted in the painting, was 1274: 296:, a sliver of Moon casts a beam across the river, symbolising the commencement of the new, industrial era. The demise of heroic strength is the main subject of the painting. It has been suggested that the ship stands for the artist himself, with an accomplished and glorious past but now contemplating his mortality. Turner called the work his "darling". 386:"in the form of mostly facetious letters" supposedly by "Michael Angelo Titmarsh Esq." abandoned his usual flippant tone when discussing "as grand a picture as ever figured on the walls of any academy, or came from the easel of any painter". Turner displayed the painting in 1839 accompanied by an altered excerpt from 446:, who had often engraved Turners, was published in 1845 and was the first of many reproductions in various techniques. In about 1848 Turner refused an offer to buy the painting reputed to have been £5,000, followed by a "blank cheque", having determined to leave it to the nation, and already being very well-off. 457:
It was evidently usually among the works on display in the studio, and is mentioned by several visitors. He intended to leave his paintings to the nation but the terms of his will were unclear and after his death in 1851 his will was contested by relatives, and several years of litigation were only
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The composition of this painting is unusual in that the most significant object, the old warship, is positioned well to the left of the painting, where it rises in stately splendour and almost ghostlike colours against a triangle of blue sky and rising mist that throws it into relief. The beauty of
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Turner kept the painting in his studio, which also functioned as a showroom for buyers, until his death. In 1844 he loaned it as part of his deal for reproductions to the print publisher J. Hogarth, who exhibited it at his premises, but about a year later wrote a draft note replying to another
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Hawes, noting that: "Also, the locale of the painting may possibly be "Lime House Reach," near Greenwich and Rotherhithe, which runs south for a brief stretch; this is the one area along the Thames where the setting September sun would appear, in actuality, to the right of the ship, albeit
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remained in the National Gallery. It was in the Tate Gallery (as it then was) from 1910 to 1914 and 1960 to 1961, and for six months in 1987 to mark the opening of the Clore Gallery there, which houses the rest of the Bequest. In 1947–48 it went on a European tour to Amsterdam,
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When exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839 the painting was a considerable success, praised in various of the lengthy press reviews that the Summer Exhibitions then received as a "grand image of the last days of one of Britain's bulwarks" as
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was a well-known ship from her heroic performance at the Battle of Trafalgar, and her sale by the Admiralty had attracted substantial press coverage, which was probably what brought the subject to his attention. Instead of the
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drifts, with all its sail extended. Another small craft shows as a patch of white farther down the river. In the far distance, beyond a second tugboat which makes its way towards them, a three-
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He used considerable artistic licence in the painting, which had a symbolic meaning that his first audience immediately appreciated. Turner was twenty-eight years old when Britain entered the
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considerably farther to the right than in the painting". Hawes, p. 43, footnote 6. However, since it is unlikely Turner actually saw the journey from any vantage place, the point is moot.
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images reveal that Turner seems to have used a canvas on which he had started another marine picture, with a large sail where the tugboat's above-deck structures now are.
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in the background. The quote "Light is therefore colour" from an 1818 lecture by Turner, and a copy of his signature as made on his will are also included.
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ended in 1856, when this and a large body of other work entered the collection of the National Gallery. Most of the "Turner Bequest" was turned over to
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Turner took a degree of artistic licence with the painting. The ship was known to her crew as "Saucy", rather than "Fighting"
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The blue triangle frames a second triangle of masted ships, which decrease in size as they become more distant. The
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The current scholarly view is that it cannot be determined whether Turner actually witnessed the towing of the
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The Trafalgar Companion: A Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson
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request saying that "no considns of money or favour can induce me to lend my Darling again". Hogarth's
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When Turner came to paint this picture he was at the height of his career, having exhibited at the
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This article is about the painting. For the 1971 novel about a British nuclear submarine, see
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The picture remains in "exceptionally good condition", apart from slightly discoloured
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Matthew Morgan, 'Turner painting the Fighting Temeraire' (lecture) (18 March 2016).
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90.7 cm × 121.6 cm (35.7 in × 47.9 in)
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The painting is the inspiration for the "Glowing Painting" found in the 2020
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correcting the painting by putting the mast of the tug before its smokestack
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was created from a revision of this article dated 7 November 2020
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ship rides at anchor. The becalmed vessels show the obsolescence of sail.
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The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838
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In February 2020, the Bank of England introduced a new polymer
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Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour
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and tugboat have passed a small river craft with its
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Index

John Winton

J. M. W. Turner
Oil on canvas
National Gallery
London
oil-on-canvas
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Royal Academy
HMS Temeraire
second-rate
ships of the line
Battle of Trafalgar
Thames
steam tug
berth
Rotherhithe
National Gallery
Turner Bequest
BBC Radio 4
Today programme
voted the nation's favourite painting
£20 banknote
self-portrait
Royal Academy
watercolour
oils
Napoleonic Wars
Union Jack

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