Ian Warrell is an independent curator specialising in British art of the 19th century. He is the author of ‘Venice with Turner’, available later this spring (Tate Publishing).

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The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 (1839), J.M.W. Turner.

Rigged results – the artistic licence of Turner’s Fighting Temeraire

In depicting the final journey of a fêted battleship, Turner tweaked the facts to inflate the pathos of the scene

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