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Two sailing ships listing in a gale amid broken ice floes, drawn in pale watercolor and pencil.

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The Erebus & Terror in a Gale in the Pack of the Ice, Charles Hamilton Smith (1820), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A watercolor and pencil drawing shows two sailing ships listing heavily amid broken ice floes, with dark open water in the foreground and ice-covered shores behind. Low, pale sky and rough sea convey the gale described in the title.

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