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.

J.M.W. Turner, “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),” from 1840, “the most enduring of all abolitionist works of art. ...

A view of "Turner’s Modern World" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, running through July 10, 2022. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) As you walk into the first gallery of the ...

J.M.W. Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840). Photo: courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sarah Cascone June 16, 2015 Share Share This Article.

The incident, which was included in "The History and Abolition of the Slave Trade" by Thomas Clarkson (a second edition was published in 1839) is thought to have inspired Turner's painting. "Slave ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)," 1840. Henry Lillie Pierce Fund.

A number of works remained with Mrs. Booth and it was from her that Ruskin purchased this watercolor study in 1880. In it, Turner worked out the fish for the lower right corner of The Slave Ship.

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.