John Macallan Swan, 1870 - Polar bears climbing a drifting dinghy - fine art print
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Summary of the more than 150 year-old work of art
"Polar bears climbing a drifting dinghy" is an artpiece painted by the male British painter John Macallan Swan in 1870. Nowadays, the piece of art is included in the digital art collection of Rijksmuseum. With courtesy of Rijksmuseum (licensed - public domain).: . Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has an aspect ratio of 16 : 9, which implies that the length is 78% longer than the width.
Description by Rijksmuseum website (© Copyright - by Rijksmuseum - www.rijksmuseum.nl)
Four polar bears climb a drifting dinghy abandoned in the water.
Background information on the unique artpiece
| Artwork title: | "Polar bears climbing a drifting dinghy" |
| Classification of the work of art: | painting |
| Broad category: | modern art |
| Time: | 19th century |
| Created in the year: | 1870 |
| Artwork age: | over 150 years old |
| Museum / location: | Rijksmuseum |
| Place of the museum: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Museum's webpage: | Rijksmuseum |
| License: | public domain |
| Courtesy of: | Rijksmuseum |
General background information on the artist
| Name: | John Macallan Swan |
| Other names: | Swan M. J. M., Swan John Macallan, Swan J. M., swan j.m., Suan, j.m. swan ara, J. M. Swann, J. M. Swan, Swan, swan j. m., swan j.m., j.m. swan, John Macallan Swan |
| Artist gender: | male |
| Nationality of artist: | British |
| Jobs of the artist: | printmaker, genre painter, visual artist, etcher, sculptor, painter, drawer, architect, graphic artist, artist |
| Country: | the United Kingdom |
| Artist classification: | modern artist |
| Age at death: | 63 years |
| Year of birth: | 1847 |
| Born in (place): | Brentford, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, neighborhood |
| Year died: | 1910 |
| Place of death: | Isle Of Wight, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, United States |
Available product materials
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- Canvas: A printed canvas, which shall not be mistaken with an artwork painted on a canvas, is an image printed on a cotton canvas fabric. A canvas of your favorite masterpiece will let you turn your art print into a large artpiece like you would see in a gallery. The advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy and straightforward to hang your Canvas print without the support of additional wall-mounts. A canvas print is suitable for all kinds of walls.
- Poster (canvas material): Our poster print is a printed canvas with a nice finish on the surface. A printed poster is ideally used for placing the fine art print with a custom frame. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin of around 2-6cm round about the artwork, which facilitates the framing.
Structured product details
| Print prodct: | art print |
| Method of reproduction: | digital reproduction |
| Manufacturing process: | UV direct printing (digital print) |
| Provenance: | manufactured in Germany |
| Stock type: | on demand production |
| Intended usage: | art reproduction gallery, gallery wall |
| Alignment: | landscape alignment |
| Image aspect ratio: | 16 : 9 (length : width) |
| Image aspect ratio interpretation: | the length is 78% longer than the width |
| Available choices: | poster print (canvas paper), acrylic glass print (with real glass coating), canvas print, metal print (aluminium dibond) |
| Canvas on stretcher frame (canvas print) size variants: | 90x50cm - 35x20" |
| Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating) size options: | 90x50cm - 35x20" |
| Poster print (canvas paper) options: | 90x50cm - 35x20" |
| Aluminium print (aluminium dibond material) size variants: | 90x50cm - 35x20" |
| Art print framing: | no frame |
Important information: We try whatever we can in order to depict the products in as much detail as possible and to illustrate them visually. Although, the pigments of the print materials and the printing can diverge somehwat from the representation on the screen. Depending on the screen settings and the quality of the surface, color pigments can unfortunately not be printed as exactly as the digital version on this website. Considering that our fine art prints are processed and printed by hand, there might as well be slight discrepancies in the motif's size and exact position.
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