![]() 414 and 415, was an indirect allusion to the scene of a whaling ship entangling itself in the ice of the companion painting, No. In addition Barry Venning has suggested that the use of the name Erebus in the title of this, the first of a pair of pictures of whaling in the Arctic region, as opposed to the Antarctic scenes of the whaling pictures of the previous year, Nos. The ships set out in 1845, were still away in 1846, and were finally abandoned as lost in 1847. In fact Turner seems to have been cashing in on the interest in the voyage of the Erebus and the Terror in search of the North-West passage. As John McCoubrey pointed out in his lecture on ‘Turner's Whaling Pictures’ given at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on 18 April 1975, there is no record of a whaler called the Erebus. Despite this reference the picture is much less closely tied to the text than are the two whaling pictures of the previous year, Nos. 170 Venning 1985.Įxhibited in 1846 with the reference ‘- Beale's Voyage’. ![]() 1846 (237) Exhibition of Modern Art, New Gallery, Edinburgh, March 1851 (see below) Amsterdam, Berne, Paris (repr.), Brussels, Liege (41), Venice (repr.) and Rome (repr.) (50) 1947–8 Whitechapel 1953 (99) Paris 1965 (36, repr.) Edinburgh 1968 (15). ![]() 414 ) transferred to the Tate Gallery 1929.Įxh. ‘Hurrah! for the Whaler Erebus! another Fish!’ Exh. ![]()
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