'The Fighting Temeraire'
November 11 2016
Picture: National Gallery
There was an excellent discussion about the Fighting Temeraire on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' yesterday. Well worth listening to.
It was mentioned that Turner might not have actually ever seen the scene he depicts, the towing up the Thames of the Temeraire for scrapping on 5/6 September 1838. In fact, as a reader reminds me, we know Turner can't have seen it, as he was in the South of France at the time, near Nice. Some of the products of that tour can be seen in the current Turner Contemporary show, J M W Turner, Adventures in Colour.
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