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Three tall sailing ships, each with three masts and full sails, float in calm, arctic waters, surrounded by fragments of icebergs and ice floes amid a smattering of arctic animals in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon line comes about a quarter of the way up the composition so the sails and rigging of the ships are shown against the sky. The clouds have ivory tops and lavender-purple undersides, and they curve in a C-shaped bank to cover most of the left half of the painting and to span the horizon. The three ships closest to us are spaced evenly across the composition, with the…

The Northern Whale Fishery: The "Swan" and "Isabella"

John Ward of Hull (British, 1798 - 1849)

c. 1840 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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