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1839
Showing 14 works across all media from 1839
The Fighting Temeraire
1839 · National Gallery, London
A steam tug hauls a Trafalgar warship off to be broken up. Turner refused to sell the picture and left it to the nation.
★ 9.1
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839 · 520 pages
Seventeen years old, Fabrice del Dongo wanders onto the field at Waterloo and cannot tell whether he fought there. What follows is court intrigue, a prison tower, and love signaled through a window.
★ 7.0
The Voyage of the Beagle
1839 · 432 pages
Five years at sea gave Darwin fossil giants in Patagonia, an earthquake lifting the Chilean coast, and Galapagos tortoises. He wrote it as travel narrative, and evolution grew out of these notes.
★ 6.9
Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino
1839 · Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Roman Forum was a cattle pasture when Turner painted it, and he let the columns of empire evaporate into gold air.
★ 6.3
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
On Prejudice · 1839
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1839