
Not on display
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Gouache and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 137 × 191 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D24669
Turner Bequest CCLIX 104
Display caption
The design in this watercolour foreshadows Turner’s painting of the Fighting Téméraire (seen in the print to the right). The later painting was a nostalgic reflection upon Britain’s passing glories. This scene,
of a streamtug on the lower Seine in France, is more straightforward in its presentation of the usefulness and even excitement
of the new technology.
Gallery label, September 2004
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