Whalers (J. M. W. Turner)

Whalers

Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	c. 1845
Dimensions	91.8 cm × 122.6 cm (36.1 in × 48.3 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession	96.29

Whalers is an 1845 painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a whaling ship and her launches pursuing a whale. Originally created with the hope that collector Elhanan Bicknell would purchase it, the work is currently found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The painting depicts a wounded sperm whale thrashing in a sea of foam and blood. In the background is a ghostly three-masted whaling vessel.^[3]

References

^ "Whalers". Retrieved 26 October 2018.
^ Johnson, Ken (2 June 2016). "In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
^ ^a ^b Warrell, Ian (2007). J.M.W. Turner. London: Tate Publishing. p. 199.

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Paintings	Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800) Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800) Diana and Callisto (c. 1796) Fishermen at Sea (1796) Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797) Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797) Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797) Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798) Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798) Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798) Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798) Shipping by a Breakwater (1798) Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798) View of a Town (c. 1798) Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799) Self-Portrait (c. 1799) View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (c. 1799–1800) Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799–1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800) Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800) Calais Pier (1803) View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805) The Shipwreck (1805) London from Greenwich Park (1809) The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810) High Street, Oxford (1810) Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815) Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818) The Field of Waterloo (1818) England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819) Rome, from the Vatican (1820) The Battle of Trafalgar (1822) Port Ruysdael (1826) Chichester Canal (1828) Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829) Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832) The Fountain of Indolence (1834) The Golden Bough (1834) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 (1835) Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835) The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838) Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839) Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840) Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) The Blue Rigi (1842) The Red Rigi (1842) Peace – Burial at Sea (1842) War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843) Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844) Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845) Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845) Whalers (c. 1845) The Beacon Light (unknown)
Prints	Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)
Museums	Sandycombe Lodge
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