The last two images in Claudia Rankine's book Citizen are this painting and a detail from its bottom right corner.
The last two images in Claudia Rankine's book Citizen are this painting and a detail from its bottom right corner. The poor reception of this painting is often contrasted with the positive reception of Auguste-FranÃ§ois Biard's painting about the same issue in the same year. Before this painting, the most famous treatment of its subject was William Elford's Brooks illustration. This painting was exhibited with an epigraph ending "Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope! / Where is thy market now?" Its artist's immortality could rest upon this painting according to John (*) Ruskin, whose favorite artist was this painting's creator. Inspired by Thomas Clarkson's account of the Zong incident, this painting depicts a manacled foot surrounded by monstrous fishes in its bottom right, and features a red sunset in this painting to suggest that a typhoon is "coming on." For 10 points, name this painting depicting the bodies of the "dead and dying" thrown overboard the title vessel, by J.Â M.Â W. Turner.
The last two images in Claudia Rankine's book Citizen are this painting and a detail from its bottom right corner.
The Slave Ship