An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, by William Bradford, 1871
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An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay

William Bradford (American, 1823–1892)

1871

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
51 3/4 x 78 in. (131.4 x 198.1 cm); framed: 60 x 86 1/2 x 4 in.
Culture
American
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Wing
Credit line
Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1982
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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