J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry ...

It features a ship sailing through rough seas into a red and orange sunset. It bears a striking resemblance to Joseph Mallord William Turner's The Slave Ship, painted in 1840.

Sondra Perry’s First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner’s “The Slave Ship” Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black ...

Turner’s The Slave Ship, which was painted in 1840, currently hangs in The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, an institution that is about as under-the-radar as The Met. And yet, ...