This painting was originally exhibited along with a poem ending, "Hope, hope, fallacious hope!
This painting was originally exhibited along with a poem ending, "Hope, hope, fallacious hope! Where is thy market now?" The sky is bluish-white in the upper right, and yellow-orange in the center, where a hazy vertical white line represents the sun. In the lower right corner, five white birds hover over an aggressive group of fish, who are attracted by the pools of maroon blood coming from a drowning figure. The fettered leg of that figure sticks out above the water, along with the chains of other dying figures who were thrown off of the title object so that their owners could collect insurance money. FTP, name this J. M. W. Turner painting of a boat sailing the Middle Passage during a storm.
This painting was originally exhibited along with a poem ending, "Hope, hope, fallacious hope!
The {Slave Ship} or {Slavers throwing overboard the dead and dying}: Typhon coming on