Two polar bears despoiling the remains of a shipwreck in a desolate arctic setting. Reproduction of an oil painting by E. H. Landseer.

  • Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873.
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40018i
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The bear on the left tears at remains of a sail wrapped around a mast of a sailing ship, while the other bear crushes a bone from a rib cage of a skeleton above the planks of the boat

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Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image 8.4 x 22.8 cm

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Lettering

Man proposes and God disposes by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.

References note

R. Ormond, Sir Edwin Landseer, Tate Gallery London 1982, p. 207

Reference

Wellcome Collection 40018i

Reproduction note

Reproduction of the oil painting in the Tate Gallery London "Man proposes, God disposes", 1863-1864, by E. H. Landseer

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