Joseph Mallord William Turner – Whalers – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437854
This picture is one of four whaling subjects by Turner; the other three form part of the artist’s bequest at Tate Britain, London. The Met’s painting and another of the same title were shown at the Royal Academy in 1845, receiving a mixed reception
Moore. That Cunning Alphabet: Melville’s Aesthetics of Nature.