Boats Carrying Out Anchors to the Dutch Men of War
Joseph Mallord William Turner
c. 1804
Boats Carrying Out Anchors and Cables to the Dutch Men of War is an 1804 oil painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. A historical seascape depicts a scene from 1665. It has been suggested that Turner may have been warning about the danger of Napoleonic France repeating the Dutch attack on the Royal Navy fleet during the Raid on the Medway in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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