A dark gray stream shooting out of a smokestack obscures the view of the titular object, a wartime relic whose wooden features are rendered in painstaking detail, unlike the sea it floats on as it is ignominiously pulled along by a steamship.
A trip from Sheerness to Rotherhithe provides the backdrop for this painting, which the artist called "[his] darling" and refused to sell. The setting sun in the lower right serves as a vanishing point, and the fiery red and orange streaks around it and over the shoreline form a grand contrast between the right side and the cloudy sky on the left, and alluding to the decline of an era. A dark gray stream shooting out of a smokestack obscures the view of the titular object, a wartime relic whose wooden features are rendered in painstaking detail, unlike the sea it floats on as it is ignominiously pulled along by a steamship. FTP, name this Joseph Turner painting that shows the titular boat being "tugged to its last berth to be broken up."
A trip from Sheerness to Rotherhithe provides the backdrop for this painting, which the artist called "[his] darling" and refused to sell.
The {Fighting Temeraire}, Tugged to Her Last Berth to be Broken Up