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Shedding new light on Turner's 'farewell' to the age of sail.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20050218
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AS A mature student just starting a fine art BA at Exeter, I chose Turner's Fighting Temeraire as my subject for an essay on painting (Mail).

For years, critics have enthused about Turner's setting sun, but my research leads me to believe it's a sunrise, symbolising the dawn of the new steam age.

Almost two centuries of writers have taken the line first propounded by novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, an able amateur artist and art critic writing under the pseudonym Michael Angelo Titmarsh.

In 1839, when the painting was first shown, he wrote: 'The old Temeraire ...

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