Turner Fighting Temeraire Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Woman

Summary: The Turner Fighting Temeraire painting becomes Irene Adler's perhaps permanently borrowed belonging in Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

In CBS Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), art forger Irene Adler has taken advantage of her career as an art restorer to switch her counterfeit copy of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire for the original, which she comfortably displays in her art studio: Joseph Mallard William Turner's The Fighting Temeraire (1839 oil on canvas); The National Gallery, Westminster, Central London, South East England: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Turner painting The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up advances the plot in episode 23 of season one in the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

The 35.7- by 47.9-inch (90.7- by 121.6-centimeter) oil on canvas no longer belongs to Central London's National Gallery in Westminster because of Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer). The allegorical composition on the steam-powered Industrial Revolution comes into Irene's clandestine collection after she convinces gallery curators of the credible correctness of her counterfeited copy. Writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny depict devious dealings that demonstrate Irene's dark-hearted demeanor and disarm Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in the episode The Woman.

Perhaps the first in season one's two-episode finale emphasizes technological and temporal enemies that endanger Irene's professional expertise and that the Turner Fighting Temeraire tow epitomizes.

National Gallery visitors find the original Turner Fighting Temeraire painting, inventory number NG524, in room 34 for mid-18th- to mid-19th-century British landscapes, portraits, racehorses and seascapes.

Curators gather other Turner-bequested seascapes: Calais Pier; Margate (?), from the Sea; Rain, Steam, and Speed; The Evening Star; and The Parting of Hero and Leander. Joseph Mallord William Turner (April 23, 1775-Dec. 19, 1851) has one steamboat heading the decommissioned 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire eastward, not westward, from Sheerness to Rotherhithe. Sheerness is a present car and fresh produce import port and a previous Royal Navy dockyard, 1667-1960, on the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.

Rotherhithe juxtaposes historic roles as departure port July 1620 for the Pilgrim ship Mayflower and as scrapyard Sept. 6, 1838, for the Battle of Trafalgar hero-ship.

Art historians know Turner as Royal Academy of Arts enrollee in 1789, exhibitor of watercolors in 1790 and of oils in 1796 and perspective professor, 1807-1828.

The National Gallery website lists the Cockney-speaking Covent Gardener of lower middle-class socioeconomic origins as "the best-loved English Romantic artist" and as "the painter of light." Biographers mention the architectural draughtsman, engraver, gallery owner-operator, painter, poet and watercolorist as among witnesses to Temeraire's tow Sept. 5-6, 1838, from Sheerness to Beatson's Wharf. John Beatson (May 2, 1802-July 26, 1858) needed £5,530 Aug. 16, 1858, for the crewless, gun-, mast-, store-dismantled Temeraire and £58 for tow team and tugs.

The Turner Fighting Temeraire painting offers one masted, white-gray ship behind just one of the Thames Steam Towing Company's 37-ton London and 32-ton Samson paddle tugs.

The Turner Fighting Temeraire painting presents a pictorial farewell to the Chatham Royal Navy Dockyard-produced 2,120-ton vessel whose crew protected the 104-gun, 2,142-ton flagship HMS Victory.

Temeraire Captain Eliab Harvey's (Dec. 5, 1758-Feb. 20, 1830) subduing the 74-gun Fougueux, 74-gun Redoutable and 112-gun Santa Ana quashed the 33-ship French and Spanish fleets. The Battle of Trafalgar's game-changer Oct. 21, 1805, remained in Baltic and Mediterranean Sea front-line service until recommissioning as prison, recruit-receiving, supply and war-guard ships, 1813-1838. Refitted and repainted for each position, the Medway Reserve's flagship spent 1836-1838 under Thomas Fortescue Kennedy (Nov. 9, 1774-May 15, 1846), Sheerness Captain-Superintendent and Trafalgar First-Lieutenant.

Perhaps director Seith Mann's episode transmits, through the Turner Fighting Temeraire painting, Irene's transformations from top-of-the-world to toppled to tucked-away tool of transient technology and time.

In CBS Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers that art restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) is also an art forger, with the original of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire conspicuously displayed as a replica in her art studio: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook July 3, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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In CBS Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), art forger Irene Adler has taken advantage of her career as an art restorer to switch her counterfeit copy of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire for the original, which she comfortably displays in her art studio: Joseph Mallard William Turner's The Fighting Temeraire (1839 oil on canvas); The National Gallery, Westminster, Central London, South East England: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons@ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Fighting_Temeraire,_JMW_Turner,_National_Gallery.jpg

In CBS Elementary tvseries' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers that art restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) is also an art forger, with the original of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire conspicuously displayed as a replica in her art studio: Elementary @ ElementaryCBS, via Facebook July 3, 2013, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/258309474294171/

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