The ship’s captain, William Thomas Turner, believing himself to be the last living person on board, climbed the halyards to keep from being washed away and to remain with his ship to the end.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)," 1840. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) In this last room of “Turner’s ...

What is it? A Ship against the Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound is a watercolour by Joseph Mallord William Turner. How was it done? Turner characteristically plunges us into the heart ...