Artist: Oswald Walters Brierly
Date: 1867
Size: 107 x 169 cm
Museum: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
Technique: Watercolour
Oswald Brierly came to Australia in 1842 and was appointed manager of a whaling station at Twofold Bay in New South Wales. He recorded the offshore activities in numerous drawings and watercolours showing the pursuit of whales for their blubber, which was primarily used to manufacture oil for lamp fuel. This watercolour, painted many years after the artist’s return to England, was described by Brierly in
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