History Art / TheFightingTemeraire

* VerbingNouny: ''Temeraire'', the noun, is the name of a warship. The "fighting" part highlights that it was very active during the war[[note]]In truth, the ''Temeraire'' only fought in one battle in its entire career - Trafalgar, where she did acquit herself admirably - and its reputation as a fighting ship stemmed from her captain being the only one to get his report of his ship's actions in the battle sent back to England with the first dispatch home.[[/note]].

* VerbingNouny: ''Temeraire'', the noun, is the name of a warship. The "fighting" part highlights that it was very active during the war.

* VerbingNouny: ''Temeraire'', the noun, is the name of a warship. The fighting part highlights that it was very active during the war.

* EmpathicEnvironment: The calm, misty, beautiful weather creates a melancholic mood for the painting. Of things coming to an end and people (the sailors) having to part ways.

* RidingIntoTheSunset: {{Inverted}}, in that the vessels are coming ''out of'' the sunset, but the significance --the sunset is beautiful and represents finality-- stands.

** The ocean is remarkably calm. That, combined with the gentle, yellow lighting creates a tranquil atmosphere, of melancholy and resignation.

The painting combines melancholy symbolism, patriotic references (the ''Temeraire'''s wartime honours included the famous and crucial [[UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson Battle of Trafalgar]]), and a dazzling, almost abstract sunset. Hence, it's not surprising that its popularity has endured to the modern day; it was voted Britain's favourite by the listeners of a radio program in 2005, and in 2020, it was reproduced on a banknote honouring Turner. It also shows up in the James Bond movie ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.

* OldSoldier: Symbolically; the ''Temeraire'' is a military veteran at the end of its career.

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* RidingIntoTheSunset: Inverted, in that the vessels are coming ''out of'' the sunset, but the significance -- the sunset is beautiful but represents finality -- stands.
%%* {{Symbolism}}: The painting is saturated with melancholy end-of-an-era symbolism.

* EmpathicEnvironment: The calm, misty, beautiful weather creates the mood of the painting.

* {{Symbolism}}: The painting is saturated with melancholy end-of-an-era symbolism.

* ArtisticLicense: The painting does not realistically represent the real event (which Turner may or may not have witnessed -- he did spend a lot of time on and around the Thames). Records show that the ''Temeraire'' had its masts removed before it went to the scrapyard, it was towed by two tugs rather than one, and it would have travelled westwards, into the sunset rather than out of it. The RuleOfSymbolism applies.

''The Fighting Temeraire'' (in full, ''The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838'') is an 1838 {{painting|s}} by British artist JMW Turner. It depicts the [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Napoleonic-period]] sailing warship HMS ''Temeraire'' being towed to the scrapyard by a steam tug, with a dramatic sunset in the background. It was highly popular from the first, and Turner left it to the nation when he died; it is on display at the National Gallery in London.

The painting combines melancholy symbolism, patriotic references (the ''Temeraire'''s wartime honours included the famous and crucial [[UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson Battle of Trafalgar]]), and a dazzling, almost abstract sunset. Hence, it's not surprising that its popularity has endured to the modern day; it was voted Britain's favourite by the listeners of a radio programme in 2005, and in 2020, it was reproduced on a banknote honouring Turner. It also shows up in the James Bond movie ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.

!!Tropes Invoked by the Painting:

* ArtisticLicense: The painting does ''not'' realistically represent the real event (which Turner may or may not have witnessed -- he did spend a lot of time on and around the Thames); records show that the ''Temeraire'' had its masts removed before it went to the scrapyard, it was towed by two tugs rather than one, and it would have travelled westwards, into the sunset rather than out of it. The RuleOfSymbolism applies.

''The Fighting Temeraire'' (in full, ''The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838'') is an 1838 painting by British artist JMW Turner. It depicts the [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Napoleonic-period]] sailing warship HMS ''Temeraire'' being towed to the scrapyard by a steam tug, with a dramatic sunset in the background. It was highly popular from the first, and Turner left it to the nation when he died; it is on display at the National Gallery in London.

The painting combines melancholy symbolism, patriotic references (the ''Temeraire'''s wartime honours included the famous and crucial [[UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson Battle of Trafalgar]]), and a dazzling, almost abstract sunset. Hence, it's not surprising that its popularity has endured to the modern day; it was voted Britain's favourite by the listeners of a radio programme in 2005, and in 2020, it was reproduced on a banknote honouring Turner. It also shows up in the James Bond movie ''Film/Skyfall''.

Tropes Invoked by the Painting:

The painting combines melancholy symbolism, patriotic references (the ''Temeraire'''s wartime honours included the famous and crucial [[UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson Battle of Trafalgar]]), and a dazzling, almost abstract sunset. Hence, it's not surprising that its popularity has endured to the modern day; it was voted Britain's favourite by the listeners of a radio programme in 2005, and in 2020, it was reproduced on a banknote honouring Turner.