The Fighting Temeraire
A steam tug hauls a Trafalgar warship to the breakers: the sunset of sail in a burning sky
- Author
- J. M. W. Turner
- Style
- Romanticism — Feeling and the elements over reason: the lone hero, storm, ruins and the national past
- Century
- 19th century
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