May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 456

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
"I HAVE A WHALE OR TWO ON THE CANVAS" TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, "J M WTurner," to collector Elhanan Bicknell: "I will thank you for a call in Queen Anne Street at your earliest convenience, for I have a whale or two on the canvas." 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; remnants of prior mounting on terminal page along vertical fold, faint scattered soiling. (MRS) [London], 31 January 1845
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The Whalers, exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1845, was painted for Bicknell, who was a wealthy whale oil merchant.