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Key Information
- Title:
- The Liverpool Whaleship, 'Baffin'
- Object Name:
- painting
- Artist / Maker:
- Hustwick, Francis
- Date/Period:
- 1834
- Location on Display:
- Museum - Not Currently on display
- Accession No:
- KINCM:2007.4206
- Brief Description:
- The Liverpool Whaleship, 'Baffin' by Francis Hustwick (1797-1865), 1834. Two three masted whalers in full sail in the Arctic ocean. The vessel on the left is seen from portside bow view with a male figurehead in tunic holding a staff at the prow and red pennant from the main mast, has been identified as the Liverpool whaleship Baffin, after William Baffin (1584 - 1622) navigator and explorer who gave his name to Baffin Bay, New Zealand. The right hand vessel is a portside stern view with carved gilt decorated transom, blue pennant on the main mast and whale boats marked in red at each end with green edged white hulls, attached along the outer deckside of the hull. The Baffin has similar whale boats around the stern sides of the hull with green edged white hull. They both have black hulls with a cream coloured gunwale. There are ice flows at the right foreground with a polar bear facing towards the bow of the Baffin on the left with other whaling ships and ice bergs and floes on the horizon. A high resolution version of this image is available to purchase via Bridgeman Images at www.bridgemanimages.co.uk/en/ - the image can be found by searching the code: ERM6200044
Physical Information
- Medium:
- oil
- Support:
- canvas
Dimensions:
| Type | Height | Width | Depth | Diameter | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approximate measurment | 63.7[cm] | 82[cm] | |||
| Frame | 738[mm] | 905[mm] | 66[mm] | ||
| canvas | 650[mm] | 760[mm] |
