Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying: Typhon coming on, J.M.W. Turner, R.A.... the R.A.'s rays are indeed terrific, and the slaver throwing its cargo overboard is the most tremendous piece of colour that ever was seen; it sets the corner of the room in which it hangs into a flame. Is the picture sublime or ridiculous? Indeed I don't know which. ( Thackeray, Essays, Reviews, p. 159)