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  title info:
    title: Turner and the slave trade
  name:
    name part: Smiles, Sam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: ix, 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
  abstract: "While J. M. W. Turner's iconic painting The Slave Ship (1840) is celebrated as a powerful criticism of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people, his personal and professional ties to slavery tell a more nuanced story. This book provides the first detailed analysis of Turner's evolving responses to slavery over his lifetime, from his financial investment in a Jamaican property worked by enslaved labourers to his later denunciation of the trade in his art. Drawing on extensive archival research, Turner and the Slave Trade traces the artist's interactions with patrons tied to the plantation economy and examines the impact of abolitionist discourse on his work. Key chapters investigate The Slave Ship, its inspiration, and its contested interpretations while situating Turner within broader debates about art, slavery, and shifting public sentiment."-- dust jacket flap.
  table of contents: The ties that bind -- Turner's Jamaican investment -- Patrons and plantations -- Imaging slavery -- New contexts and new directions -- Turner's Slave Ship -- 1840 and after.
  note: Sam Smiles.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-227) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William)
      name part: 1775-1851
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William)
      name part: 1775-1851
  subject:
    topic: Transatlantic slave trade
  subject:
    topic: Enslaved persons
    topic: In art
  subject:
    topic: Slave trade
    topic: In art
  subject:
    topic: History painting
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Landscape painting
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Painting, British
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Esclaves
    topic: Dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: Peinture d'histoire
    temporal: 18e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Peinture de paysages
    temporal: 18e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Peinture britannique
    temporal: 18e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Slavery in art
  classification: ND497.T8 S65 2025
  classification: 720.92
  identifier: 9781913107512
  identifier: 1913107515
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250611
    record change date: 20260323120303.7
    record identifier: in00005729188
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng