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Title	The Slave Ship;
Title Alternative	Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming on;
File Name	civ metadata; 99100911.jpg
Copyright Status/Owner	Public Domain; Actively Pursuing
Publisher Original	Mayfield Publishing Company
Rights (Patron Usage Instructions)	http://www.lib.byu.edu/genericnote_copyright.html
Course	HUM 202
Lecture Number	21
Professor	Green, Jon D., 1940-
Description	The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming on) is an excellent example of J.M.W. Turner's distinct Romantic style. Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1840, this work depicts a well-known affair from the early 1780’s, when British slave traders threw sick slaves into the ocean in order to meet the requirements for damages from insurers; they would receive nothing for slaves who died of natural causes on board. The subject matter was still relevant when this work painted in 1840, for although slave trading was abolished in Britain in 1807, the practice of owning slaves continued. Also, the painting could be a general condemnation of the violence and cruelty inflicted by humankind for the sake of greed and ambition. The black masts of the ship appear in the distance and shackled arms and legs thrash about in the tumultuous waves and become subject to fierce fish. The artist’s loose, vigorous brushstrokes create a chaos of brilliant color and energetic movement that makes the subject matter somewhat difficult to discern, while also heightening the dramatic emotion of the incident. Turner's unique Romantic style depicts the loss of humanity in "The Slave Ship" his ghoulish representation of slavery and the American slave trade. Here, the dead and dying castaways sink to the bottom of teh rough sea.
Creator	Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
Country	Great Britain
Geographic Region	Europe
Type	Slide
Platform	Cross-Platform
File Size	244.457 KB
Genre	Paintings
Category	Art
Keywords	Turner, Joseph Mallord William; Turner, J.M.W.; Slave Ship; Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming on; Romanticism; Slavery;
Time Period	Romantic Era
Date Range	1820 AD : 1860 AD
Date Original	1840 AD
Date Digital	2005-03-29
Metadata Entry Date	2009-08-11
Quality	High
Contributors	Brigham Young University
Edition	Electronic reproduction;
Format	JPEG
Owning Institution	The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Physical Description	2' 11-11/16'' x 4' 5/16''
Publisher Digital	Brigham Young University
Source	Roy Matthews and F. DeWitt Platt, The Western Humanities, 3rd ed. (Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Pub., 1998)467; Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 12th ed., vol 2 (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005), 839-840; Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Nineteenth-Century European Art, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006), 194-195.
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