The Fighting Temeraire
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| The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up |
| J. M. W. Turner, 1838 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 91 × 122 cm |
| National Gallery, London |
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up is an 1838 painting by J. M. W. Turner.
The painting shows the 98-gun ship Temeraire, which played a distinguished role in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, being towed towards its final berth in east London in 1838 to be broken up.
[edit] Greatest painting in a British art gallery
In 2005 The Fighting Temeraire was voted the greatest painting in a British art gallery. The painting, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, won 31,892 votes, more than a quarter of the 118,111 cast in a poll organised by the BBC Today radio programmme. In second place was John Constable's The Hay Wain, Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère was third, and The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck was fourth. Any painting displayed in a British gallery was eligible for the vote.
