A CLOSER LOOK AT : JMW Turner’s the Fighting Temeraire 1838
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A pre recorded lecture available for 7 days on replay .
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You will receive the recording on Friday 22nd at 6 pm
On the occasion of MFA’s new exhibition Turner’s Modern World, we take a detailed look at Turner’s most famous painting The Fighting Temeraire, a study for which you can see in the exhibition .
It is Britain’s favourite painting, now in the possession of the National Gallery in London. You may have seen it starring in a scene in the James Bond movie Skyfall!
The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, made famous for its role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap, ending the era of sailing ships and ushering in the modern era of steam.
This prerecorded lecture offers a useful background to the current MFA exhibition
A CLOSER LOOK AT : JMW Turner’s the Fighting Temeraire 1838