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Turner shows the heroic warship Temeraire, a veteran of Trafalgar, towed by a sooty steam tug to be broken up for scrap. The blazing sunset mourns the passing of the age of sail before the industrial era. Turner called it his 'darling,' and Britons later voted it the nation's greatest painting.
The Fighting Temeraire
- Date1839
- MovementRomanticism
- WhereNational Gallery, London
- RegionBritain