The Fighting Temeraire, 1839

J. M. W. Turner

Oil on canvas · 90.7 x 121.6 cm

An old warship is towed to the scrapyard past a molten sunset.

Turner shows a ghostly old warship, hero of Trafalgar, towed to be broken up by a squat, smoking steam tug beneath a blazing sunset. It is an elegy for the age of sail — voted Britain's greatest painting, and unbearably poignant.

National Gallery

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