Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
His work makes the light dance,I feel the warmth shine out at me and he inspires me to continue painting to improve my technique.
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2006-08-13 by WENDY PUERTO from chelmsford
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
The Temeraire rescued HMS Victory and wrough revenge on the French ship Redoutable from where the fatal shot came that killed Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. JMW Turner painted it when it was being towed to be broken up. It was a icon of the nation then even as the age of steam was taking over from sail.
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2006-08-11 by Mr Bliss from Berkshire
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
my wife is a direct descendant of Midshipman William Edward Hughes Allen who was aboard Temeraire at battle of Trafalgar.He subsequently became a Captain.My wifes mothers maiden name was Allen,and both she and ourselves have copies of Turners "Fighting Temeraire.
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2006-08-03 by Michael Healy from Co.Down,N.Ireland
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
This painting, inherently beautiful and advanced for it's time, says it all about the relentless progress of civilisation and its inescapable ability to supplant and destroy the very items of the past that make the present possible.
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2006-07-21 by Bernie Edwards from Whitby
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
HMS TEMERAIRE, like that other icon of England - HMS VICTORY - was built at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, on the River Medway. It acquired its nickname - the Fighting Temeraire - from its part in the battle of Trafalgar. Vice-Admiral Collingwood's dispatch to the Admiralty included these words: 'A circumstance occurred during the action which so strongly marks the invincible spirit of the British seaman when engaging the enemies of their country, that I cannot resist the pleasure of making it known to their Lordships. The Temeraire was boarded by accident or design by a French ship on oneside and a Spaniard on the other; the contest was vigorous, but in the end the Combined Ensigns were torn from the poop and the British hoisted in their places.....' An iconic ship and a fitting subject for an iconic painting.
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2006-03-02 by Taxus from Medway
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
Voted the nation's favourite painting in a recent Radio4 poll, this painting shows the change from the age of sail to the steam age, with a paddle steamer preparing to tow away the rotting hulk of one of the last ships from the Battle of Trafalgar. Britain invented the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine and because of its mastery of sail was the world's superpower following the defeat of Napoleon at Tafalgar and Waterloo,
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2006-02-27 by Stephen Pollock-Hill from Knebworth, Herts
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
In the book "Modern Painters" (5 volumes) by Smith Elder & Co, Volume 1, (1848) there is mention of Turner painting this scene three times. Does anyone have knowledge of this? and if so, is the location of the other two known?
Comment on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire posted 2007-07-16 by Douglas R. Carpenter from Sarassota, Florida