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Turner, 'The Fighting Temeraire', 1839.

Turner, 'The Fighting Temeraire', 1839. London, The National Gallery.

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Turner, 'The Fighting Temeraire'

Ashok Roy, the head of the National Gallery's Scientific Department, explains why Turner's bizarre concoctions make his paintings difficult to clean.

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