The Fighting Temeraire
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The Fighting Temeraire

Relief reproduction of William Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up" from collection of National Gallery, London.

Scale 11%


"The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up" was painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. It depicts one of the last second-rate ships of the line which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed by a paddle-wheel steam tug towards its final berth in Rotherhithe in south-east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap. The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851. In 2005 it was voted the nation's favourite painting in a poll organised by BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Turner displayed the painting in 1839 accompanied by an altered excerpt from Thomas Campbell's poem Ye Mariners of England, reading: "The flag which braved the battle and the breeze, "No longer owns her."

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