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Key Information
- Title:
- Whalers in the Arctic
- Object Name:
- painting
- Artist / Maker:
- WARD, John (after)
- Date/Period:
- c 1850
- Location on Display:
- Museum - Not Currently on display
- Accession No:
- KINCM:1949.84
- Other Numbers:
- W1.17.76
- Brief Description:
- Oil painting entitled 'Whalers in the Arctic', after John Ward, about 1850. Oil on canvas. Stern, hull and bows view of three three masted whaling ships in the arctic in a bay surrounded by icebergs and ice flows. Stern view of ship on the left with sails being furled and whale blubber being cut and hauled onto the ship's deck from the side of the hull with a panel of the deckside lowered to allow for loading from the whale boats below; profile view at the far centre with topsails up and Merchant Navy ensign, crew climbing over a dead whale on deck, and a group of whalers harpooning on the side of an ice flow; the bows view on the right in full sail, with red pennant and garland on the main sail mast top and the centre of the deckside lowered below to load from the whale boats; with a boat in the right foreground manned with whalers and harpooner at the bow killing a whale in the water below. A polar bear eating a dead seal on an ice flow at the centre and whalers with guns standing on the ice to the left. Other vessels approaching the whaling ground from the far left and right channels.
Physical Information
- Material:
- oil; canvas; wood; plaster; gilt
- Medium:
- oil on canvas
Dimensions:
| Type | Height | Width | Depth | Diameter | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| framed | 680[mm] | 1115[mm] |
