Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves
- Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
- Date: ca. 1846
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 35 3/8 × 47 1/4 in. (89.9 × 120 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Tate, London; Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest, 1856
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings