Whalers Art Print - Joseph Mallord William Turner Size:18″×24″ probably represents a site in

probably represents a site in Brooklyn

Haut-Rhin 1824–1879 Merchantville

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at his death in December 1872

and his stay in England in 1820–21 inspired a group of works representing elegant aspects of horsemanship and sport

Whalers Art Print - Joseph Mallord William Turner Size:18″×24″ probably represents a site inAbout 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