The Fighting Temeraire

J.M.W. Turner's 'The Fighting Temeraire' (1839) depicts HMS Temeraire — the 98-gun second-rate ship that fought at Trafalgar — being towed by a small steam tug up the Thames toward a scrapyard, beneath a blazing sunset. The majestic sailing warship, ghostly pale against the approaching darkness, meets the dark, functional tug in what has become Britain's most beloved meditation on the passing of the age of sail. Voted the nation's favourite painting in a 2005 BBC poll, it has hung at the National Gallery since 1856.

Exhibition Venue

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

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