The Fighting Temeraire
In this 1839 painting, J.M.W. Turner shows the old warship Temeraire — which had served at Trafalgar decades earlier — pulled toward its final scrapping by a small steam-powered tug. The blazing sunset behind the ships underscores the shift from the era of sail to the age of steam power.
Source: Arterra 큐레이션
- Date
- 1839
- Medium
- canvas
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