Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 222
r hope to see. And yet, in fact,this is what Turner actually did see one even-ing as he was sailing down the Thames toGreenwich with a party of friends. Suddenlythere loomed up before his eyes the greathull of the Temeraire, famous in the fightagainst the fleet of Napoleon at Trafalgar, and sofull… … ■2 a - :- i TURNER 177 little steam-tug, it was headed for its last resting-place in the Thames, to be broken up for oldtimber. As the Temeraire hove in sight throughthe mist, a fellow-painter said to Turner: * Ah,what a subject for a picture 1 and so indeed itproved. The veteran ship, for Turner,…
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