'Heroine of Trafalgar ' This magnificent painting by James Mallard Turner depicts the last journey of 'The Fighting Temeraire ' , a celebrated ship-of-the-line which had fought valiantly in Lord Nelson's fleet at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 . Thirty three later she was towed up the Thames to be broken up in a Rotherhithe shipyard .
Turner's painting pays tribute to the Temeraire's heroic past . The glorious sunset is a fanfare of colour in her honour . It can also be poignantly seen as the symbol of an end to an era , with the sun setting on the days of elegant , tall masted warships. The Temeraire is already a ghostly shape , fading away behind the solid form of the squat little steam tug that pulls her along to her fate .
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Friday, 4 November 2011
'Fighting Temeraire . Jospeh Mallard Turner . English ( 1775 - 1851 - ) Oil on canvas circa 1838
'Heroine of Trafalgar ' This magnificent painting by James Mallard Turner depicts the last journey of 'The Fighting Temeraire ' , a celebrated ship-of-the-line which had fought valiantly in Lord Nelson's fleet at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 . Thirty three later she was towed up the Thames to be broken up in a Rotherhithe shipyard .
Turner's painting pays tribute to the Temeraire's heroic past . The glorious sunset is a fanfare of colour in her honour . It can also be poignantly seen as the symbol of an end to an era , with the sun setting on the days of elegant , tall masted warships. The Temeraire is already a ghostly shape , fading away behind the solid form of the squat little steam tug that pulls her along to her fate .
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