Artist: J. M. W. Turner
Dimensions: 3′ 0″ x 4′ 0″
Created: 1840
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Media: Oil paint
Period: Romanticism
Originally titled: Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying
First exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1840, at the same time as a meeting of the Anti-Slavery League.
Turner influenced by anti-slavery movement
Was exhibited with lines from a poem that Turner had written in 1812
"Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay;
Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds
Declare the Typhon's coming.
Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard
The dead and dying - ne'er heed their chains
Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope!
Where is thy market now?"
The ship in a storm symbolized the Catholic Church
The sun going down, the storm, the harsh waves replaced the anthropomorph image of God
Anthropomorph: ascribing human form or attributes to a thing or a being not human, as to a deity. 2. resembling a human form:
Dimensions: 3′ 0″ x 4′ 0″
Created: 1840
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Media: Oil paint
Period: Romanticism
Originally titled: Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying
First exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1840, at the same time as a meeting of the Anti-Slavery League.
Turner influenced by anti-slavery movement
Was exhibited with lines from a poem that Turner had written in 1812
"Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay;
Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds
Declare the Typhon's coming.
Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard
The dead and dying - ne'er heed their chains
Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope!
Where is thy market now?"
The ship in a storm symbolized the Catholic Church
The sun going down, the storm, the harsh waves replaced the anthropomorph image of God
Anthropomorph: ascribing human form or attributes to a thing or a being not human, as to a deity. 2. resembling a human form: