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The image shows a seascape with ships anchored in icy waters. The horizon is low with towering icebergs creating a boundary between the sky and water. The style appears to be an etching with fine lines outlining the ships and ice. The color palette is monochromatic with sepia tones. Patches of ice float in the water, while ships are seen in the distance across ice and water.
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The image shows a seascape with ships anchored in icy waters. The horizon is low with towering icebergs creating a boundary between the sky and water. The style appears to be an etching with fine lines outlining the ships and ice. The color palette is monochromatic with sepia tones. Patches of ice float in the water, while ships are seen in the distance across ice and water.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Among the Ice Floes

William Bradford

Date
1890
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 37.78 x 64.14 cm (14 7/8 x 25 1/4 in.) plate: 42.55 x 67.63 cm (16 3/4 x 26 5/8 in.) sheet: 46.2 x 70.8 cm (18 3/16 x 27 7/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2008.115.1024
Credit line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • daily life
  • genre
  • Ship
  • Arctic
Provenance

Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008

Inscription

lower right in graphite: William Bradford; lower right in plate: William Bradford / '90

Marks

remarque of small boats and whale in lower left margin

NGA object ID 148006. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.