In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- None
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the British Museum 1988
- Reference
- T06362
Display caption
This image shows the funeral of Turner’s old friend and colleague, the painter Sir David Wilkie. Wilkie had died on board
ship while returning from the Middle East in 1841, and was buried at sea off Gibraltar.
With its dominant blackness, the image is presented as a profound meditation
on the universal theme of death. However, it also includes a modern paddle steamer billowing smoke in the centre. Turner’s ability to bring together the contemporary and the apparently universal was one of his great strengths.
Gallery label, February 2004
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