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The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840. Measuring 35 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 48 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (91 cm × 123 cm) in oil on canvas, it is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- 91 cm × 123 cm (36 in × 48 in)
- J. M. W. Turner
- 1840
- Oil on canvas
The Slave Ship is an 1840 oil painting by J.M.W. Turner in the Romantic Maritime style, which Turner was well known for. On the surface, it looks like an innocent painting of a stormy sea with a ship middle left struggling to find its passage through.
He based the painting on an 18th-century poem that described a slave ship caught in a typhoon and on the true story of the Zong, a British ship whose captain, in 1781, had thrown overboard sick and dying enslaved people so that he could collect insurance money only available for those "lost at sea."
Turner exhibited this picture at the Royal Academy in 1840 to coincide with the World Anti Slavery Convention held in London. This led to the British to ban, from 1850, slavery by all nations. Wielding the power of Pax Britannica and of the Royal Navy as global policeman.
Dec 6, 2023 · J. M. W. Turner, Slave Ship. by Lori Landay and Dr. Beth Harris. Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Speakers: Lori Landay & Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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- Beth Harris,Steven Zucker
J. M. W. Turner’s Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhon coming on, also known simply as The Slave Ship, was first shown in the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1840 (see Figure 13.1). It has since acquired one of the most...
