# An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay

- By: William Bradford (American, 1823–1892)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1982
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10207)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/ad/web-large/DT2101.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)