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The ghost-like HMS Temeraire, a veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar, is towed by a steam tug to be broken up, passing through a fiery sunset.
Significance
Voted Britain's greatest painting in 2005, it elegizes the passing of the age of sail. Turner's atmospheric treatment of light anticipates Impressionism by decades.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
90.7 cm × 121.6 cm
Location
National Gallery, London, UK