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  2. The Fighting Temeraire - Wikipedia

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    The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.

  3. HMS Temeraire (1798) - Wikipedia

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    The Fighting Temeraire is a historical narrative written by Sam Willis and details the "extraordinary story of the mighty Temeraire, the ship behind J. M. W. Turner's iconic painting". It includes a detailed history of the ship, history of both the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and the Napoleonic Wars (1798–1815), and 50 full-color ...

  4. J. M. W. Turner - Wikipedia

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    A major exhibition, "Turner's Britain", with material (including The Fighting Temeraire) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004. In 2005, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire was voted Britain's "greatest painting" in a public poll organised by the BBC. [49]

  5. List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner - Wikipedia

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    Steamer and Lightship; a study for 'The Fighting Temeraire' 1838-39 Tate Britain, London: 91.4 x 119.7 Modern Italy: The Pifferari 1838 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow: 92.6 x 123.2 Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus: Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines 1838 Tate Britain, London: 193 x 165.1 The Fighting Temeraire: 1839

  6. The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia Museum of Art, 36.2 in (92 cm) x 48.5 in (123.1 cm) Cleveland Museum of Art, 92 cm (36.2 in) x 123 cm (48.4 in). The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by J. M. W. Turner, depicting different views of the fire that broke out at the Houses of Parliament on the evening of 16 October 1834.

  7. Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway - Wikipedia

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    91 cm × 121.8 cm (36 in × 48.0 in) Location. National Gallery, London. Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an oil painting by the 19th-century British painter J. M. W. Turner. [1] The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844, though it may have been painted earlier. [i] It is now in the collection of the ...

  8. HMS Temeraire - Wikipedia

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    HMS Temeraire (1759) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line captured from the French after the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759 and sold in 1784. HMS Temeraire was a cutter or xebec that HMS Dido captured in 1795 in the Mediterranean. The French Navy had commissioned her in October 1793 as the 6-gun Révolutionaire and renamed her ...

  9. Dido building Carthage - Wikipedia

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    Most of Turner's works eventually moved to the Tate Gallery in the early 20th century, but Dido building Carthage and Sun rising through Vapour remain at the National Gallery, shown with the Claudes; a few other selected works by Turner, including Rain, Steam and Speed and The Fighting Temeraire remain as examples of English painting at the ...