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The Fighting Temeraire
FromIn Our Time
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Nov 10, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839 (c) The National Gallery, London
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The Fighting Temeraire", one of Turner's greatest works and the one he called his 'darling'. It shows one of the most famous ships of the age, a hero of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames to the breakers' yard, sail giving way to steam. Turner displayed this masterpiece to a public which, at the time, was deep in celebration of the Temeraire era, with work on Nelson's Column underway, and it was an immediate success, with Thackeray calling the painting 'a national ode'.
With
Susan Foister
Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting at the National Gallery
David Blayney Brown
Manton Curator of British Art 1790-1850 at Tate Britain
and
James Davey
Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The Fighting Temeraire", one of Turner's greatest works and the one he called his 'darling'. It shows one of the most famous ships of the age, a hero of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames to the breakers' yard, sail giving way to steam. Turner displayed this masterpiece to a public which, at the time, was deep in celebration of the Temeraire era, with work on Nelson's Column underway, and it was an immediate success, with Thackeray calling the painting 'a national ode'.
With
Susan Foister
Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting at the National Gallery
David Blayney Brown
Manton Curator of British Art 1790-1850 at Tate Britain
and
James Davey
Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Released:
Nov 10, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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