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The Northern Whale Fishery: The "Swan" and "Isabella"
John Ward
c. 1840 · oil on canvas
Dimensions overall: 48.9 x 71.8 cm (19 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.)
Collection: National Gallery of Art
The city of Hull, an important British port for commercial and fishing fleets, was a center for whaling until the middle of the nineteenth century. During the eighteenth and nineteenth cen...
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