The Fighting Téméraire
Print
1858 (engraved)
1858 (engraved)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Lithograph entitled 'The Fighting Téméraire'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Fighting Téméraire (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Lithograph |
| Brief description | Lithograph by an unknown engraver entitled 'The Fighting Téméraire' (published by Gambart and Co.), after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner. Great Britain, 1858. |
| Physical description | Lithograph entitled 'The Fighting Téméraire'. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Horace Mummery |
| Object history | 'The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up' is an oil painting executed in 1839 by J. M. W. Turner. It depicts the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed towards its final berth in Rotherhithe in south east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap. The ship had played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. |
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| Other number | R862 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.5448-1946 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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