# Whalers, in Victorian art

Joseph Mallord William Turner painted this in about 1845, aged about 65. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A harpooned whale thrashes in a welter of spray, its shape almost lost in a vortex of white, grey and gold, while the whalers close in and a ship waits in the haze.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1845
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 36 1/8 x 48 1/4 in. (91.8 x 122.6 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 96.29
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Joseph Mallord William Turner](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner), English, 1775–1851

Turner, a London barber’s son, entered the Royal Academy Schools at fourteen and was elected a full Academician at twenty-six. Travelling constantly in Britain and on the Continent, he filled hundreds of sketchbooks and made thousands of watercolours.

4 works in the collection.

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