Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:

ID_Number: 
WBD_00300
Creator name: 
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Creator dates: 
1775-1851
Creator nationality: 
English
Title: 
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
View description: 
detail view of waves and surf
Date: 
1840
Date type: 
creation date
Repository name: 
Museum of Fine Arts
Repository name variant: 
MFA
Repository location: 
Boston, Massachusetts
Repository_inventory_ number: 
99.22
Style_Period: 
19th century
Style_Period name variant: 
Nineteenth century
Style_Period: 
Romantic (modern European styles)
Style_Period name variant: 
Romanticism
Style_Period: 
Sublime, the
Style_Period name variant: 
sublime
Subject: 
slavery
Subject: 
typhoons
Subject: 
brushwork
Subject: 
shackles
Subject: 
waves (natural events)
Subject: 
Slave trade
Culture: 
British (modern)
Category: 
Paintings
Work_type: 
oil paintings (visual works)
Material_Technique: 
oil on canvas
Measurement: 
90.8 x 122.6 cm
Copy_Source: 
digital image
Image_Source: 
Denny disk
Rights Reproduction & Access: 
Walter Denny
Filename: 
WBD_00300.tif