The Fighting Temeraire has been Referenced by...
Films — Live-Action
- Skyfall: Bond and Q are meeting at the National Gallery, looking at The Fighting Temeraire. Q comments on the painting's meaning about the passage of time.Q: Always makes me feel a bit melancholy; a grand old warship being ignominiously hauled away for scrap. The inevitability of time, don't you think?
Live Action Television
- Elementary: Sherlock Holmes first meets Irene Adler (who in this series works as an art restorer) when he requests her help verifying some artwork that the owner claims are studies for The Fighting Temeraire. Adler identifies certain pigments that were not available to artists in 1838 as proof that the "studies" are forgeries and not genuine works by Turner.
