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This painting is called «The Fighting Temeraire». Temeraire is the name of the big, old ¹ sailing ship that you can see on the left of the picture. People voted this picture the greatest painting in Britain.

J.M.W. Turner painted it in 1839. It shows the old sailing ship, the Temeraire, on the River Thames in London. There's a ² tugboat taking the old ship. Where is the boat taking the old ship? Why? It's actually taking the Temeraire ³ east to west. The old ship is going to the breaker's yard. In the background we can see the sun setting.

The picture, however, is more than just a painting of two boats in the evening. Turner wanted to show the end of something. The time of the beautiful, old sailing ships is coming to an end. That's why we see history happening ⁵ in its own life. In the little, dirty tugboat we can see the new, dirty industrial era starting. The tugboat is small and dark and it's making a lot of smoke, but it's ⁶ very strong, because it's pulling the much bigger ship.

The painting shows a ⁷ real event. Turner wanted the Temeraire taking its ⁸ last journey up the River Thames, but he changed some of the details. He painted the old ship white and gold so that it looks like a ghost. In fact, the real ship was ⁹ black and yellow. We also see the sun setting behind the ship, but in reality the ship travelled from ¹⁰ on an island towards the sunset. However, Turner wanted to show the sun setting on the time of the old sailing ships.

Turner painted «The Fighting Temeraire» when he was quite old, so perhaps he wanted to show the sun setting on ¹¹ the artist too. He loved the painting and he never sold it. You can see it today in the National Gallery in London.