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Painting

The Fighting Temeraire

J. M. W. Turner

A ghosted warship towed to be broken up by a black steam tug. Turner's elegy for sail.

Artist
J. M. W. Turner
Date
1839
Medium
Oil on canvas
Movement
Romanticism
Origin
United Kingdom
Where it is
National Gallery, London

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