A ghostly warship that fought at Trafalgar is towed up the Thames to be broken up by a squat black steam tug, while the sun sets in a blaze of red and gold. An elegy for the age of sail, voted Britain's favourite painting in 2005.
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Turner took liberties: by the time of the tow, the Temeraire had already been stripped of her masts and rigging.
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