Whalers (J. M. W. Turner)

Painting by 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]

## See also

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* List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner

## References

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1. ^ "Whalers". Retrieved 26 October 2018.
2. ^ Johnson, Ken (2 June 2016). "In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
3. ^ 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 (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 (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)
* Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
* Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
* Calais Pier (1803)
* View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
* The Shipwreck (1805)
* Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
* Walton Bridges (1806)
* A Country Blacksmith (1807)
* Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
* Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
* View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
* The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
* London from Greenwich Park (1809)
* Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
* The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
* High Street, Oxford (1810)
* Apollo and Python (1811)
* Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
* Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
* Frosty Morning (1813)
* Dido and Aeneas (1814)
* Dido building Carthage (1815)
* Crossing the Brook (1815)
* The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
* Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
* The Field of Waterloo (1818)
* Richmond Hill (1819)
* Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
* Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
* The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
* The Bay of Baiae (1823)
* The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
* Cologne (1826)
* Forum Romanum (1826)
* Mortlake Terrace (1826)
* Port Ruysdael (1826)
* The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
* Chichester Canal (1828)
* East Cowes Castle (1828)
* Regulus (1828)
* View of Orvieto (1828)
* Vision of Medea (1828)
* The Loretto Necklace (1829)
* Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
* The Evening Star (1830)
* Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
* Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
* Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
* Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
* The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
* The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
* The Golden Bough (1834)
* Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
* St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
* The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
* Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
* Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
* Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
* Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
* Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
* The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
* Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
* The Slave Ship (1840)
* Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
* Venice from the Giudecca (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 (1843)
* Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
* Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
* Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
* Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845)
* Whalers (c. 1845)
* Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
* The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
* The Beacon Light (unknown)

Prints|

* Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)

Museums|

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* The Painter (2011 play)
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