Whalers — J. M. W. Turner (ca. 1845)
10″ x 8″ (Horizontal)
$39.00
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Whalers — J. M. W. Turner (ca. 1845)
$39.00
Turner never witnessed a whale hunt firsthand; he based this and three related whaling scenes on illustrations in a friend's copy of Thomas Beale's 1839 natural history of the sperm whale, painted near the end of his career.
J. M. W. Turner, ca. 1845 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Honest scale — sizes listed in inches — the original is 91.8 × 122.6 cm.
- Source recorded — public-domain master scan, printed on matte stretched canvas, 0.75″ deep. Made to order.