"The Burning Ship"
Artist/Maker Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925) 1830 - 1925
Place MadeUnited States
Title

"The Burning Ship"

Date1878
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions75 × 138 3/4 in. (190.5 × 352.4 cm)
Donor credit lineGift of Benjamin Cummings, 1918; Conservation treatment made possible through the interest of Mrs. Alfred I. DuPont
Object number1918.27.2.16
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionPort side view of an abandoned whaler hull as it burns at sea. The masts are gone and the bowsprit has snapped off. Three other ships are sailing nearby and presumably would have come to the aid of the burning ship's crew. See Purrington, Philip F. 4 Years A-Whaling : Charles S. Raleigh, Illustrator. Barre, MA: Published for the Whaling Museum by Barre Publishers, 1972.
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"Sending Home the Mail, Bark VERONICA - Ship NIGER"
"Sending Home the Mail, Bark VERONICA - Ship NIGER"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
1918.27.3
"Reefing Before the Storm, Ship Niger"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
1878
"Getting in a Right Whale, Bark GEORGE & SUSAN"
"Getting in a Right Whale, Bark GEORGE & SUSAN"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
"Trying Out at Night, Bark MINERVA (Moonlight Scene)"
"Trying Out at Night, Bark MINERVA (Moonlight Scene)"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
Cutting in a Sperm Whale, Bark CATALPA
Cutting in a Sperm Whale, Bark CATALPA
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
1879
"Unsuccessful, Taking up the Boats, Ship NIGER"
"Unsuccessful, Taking up the Boats, Ship NIGER"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
Circa 1879
"Making a Passage, Bark NORTHERN LIGHT"
"Making a Passage, Bark NORTHERN LIGHT"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
"Boats Away off Pico, Bark SEA RANGER"
"Boats Away off Pico, Bark SEA RANGER"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
"Sailing Day, off Palmer's Island, New Bedford, Ship NIGER"
"Sailing Day, off Palmer's Island, New Bedford, Ship NIGER"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
1878
"Boarding a Right Whale's Head, Ship YOUNG PHOENIX"
"Boarding a Right Whale's Head, Ship YOUNG PHOENIX"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
1880
"Lancing a Sperm Whale"
"Lancing a Sperm Whale"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)
"Going on Sperm Whales"
"Going on Sperm Whales"
Raleigh, Charles Sidney (1830-1925)

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