Whalers Art Print - Joseph Mallord William Turner Size:18″×24″ this picture was executed expressly

this picture was executed expressly for lithographic reproduction in a pamphlet of the same title published in Philadelphia in 1859

Pennsylvania)

is derived from the so-called Salmon Fishing in the Mauritshuis

probably represents a site in Brooklyn

Origin: New York

Whalers Art Print - Joseph Mallord William Turner Size:18″×24″ this picture was executed expresslyAbout the Art: Turner was seventy years old when Whalers debuted to mixed reviews at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845. Its subject proved elusive, as the English novelist William Thackeray observed: "That is not a smear of purple you see yonder, but a beautiful whale, whose tail has just slapped a half dozen whale boats into perdition; and as for what you fancied to be a few zig zag lines spattered on the canvas at hap hazard, look! they turn out