メトロポリタン美術館のインスタグラム(metmuseum) - 11月15日 03時48分

Today marks 167 years since Herman Melville's novel about a giant white whale named #MobyDick was published in the U.S. ? Can you make out the #whale in this painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner? When "Whalers" debuted in 1845, some praised the painting, others scoffed at it. But critics in both camps acknowledged that the subject might prove elusive at a glance. As the English novelist William Thackeray observed: "That is not a smear of purple you see yonder, but a beautiful whale...” ⁣
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Artwork: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851) | Whalers | ca. 1845

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