Title

'Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves', 1846. Artist: JMW Turner

Caption

'Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves', 1846. From the Tate Gallery, London.

Date

1846

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B85_140

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (1,8Mb) / 16,7in x 11,6in / 5003 x 3489 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation sea England job frozen arts painting country ice art trade seascape ship ships occupation burning fire British geography English color colour whale Arctic Greenland trapped chain location Victorian century Britain profession carcass anchor romanticism aquatic life 19th century water transport nineteenth century Art Media geographical feature whale blubber whaler whaling oil JMW Turner J M W Turner Turner Joseph Mallord William oil