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HMS. Temeraire. (1798) HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the United Kingdom 's Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly on blockades or convoy escort duties. She fought only one fleet action, the Battle of Trafalgar, but became so well known for that action and ...
1839. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 90.7 cm × 121.6 cm (35.7 in × 47.9 in) Location. National Gallery, London. 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.
Artist's conception of HMS Sandwich fighting the French flagship Bucentaure (completely dismasted) at Trafalgar. Bucentaure is also fighting HMS Temeraire (on the left) and being fired into by HMS Victory (behind her). In fact, this is a mistake by Auguste Mayer, the painter; HMS Sandwich never fought at Trafalgar. [61]
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 National Gallery, London.
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]
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 ...
The Fighting Temeraire, overture for orchestra; Idyll for orchestra; Intermezzo: In A Cottage Garden for piano (1917) Invention for piano or harpsichord (pub. 1951) Musical Box with two tunes (pub. 1940) A Night By Dalegarth Bridge, symphonic scherzo for orchestra (1921) Nocturne for piano (1944) On a Summer's Day (Bournemouth Festival, 1923)
December 8, 1915. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.