Famous work · not an exact-location map point
The Slave Ship
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
This famous work does not have a single exact real-world viewpoint. The connection below explains its actual relationship to the real world.
- Date
- 1840-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Location relations
Each kind of real-world link is kept separate — a documented viewpoint is never merged with a depicted place or a creation location.
Inspired by this place — general area
Zong massacre
Where the original is now
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
In the collection of Museum of Fine Arts Boston
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — collection record for J. M. W. Turner, ‘Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on)’, accession 99.22; exhibited Royal Academy 1840, oil on canvas, 90.8 × 122.6 cm; Henry Lillie Pierce Fund (mfa.org)
- Martin Butlin & Evelyn Joll, ‘The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner’ (rev. ed., Yale, 1984), no. 385
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