Dramatic Seascapes

Artistic renditions of tumultuous sea conditions and naval engagements, featuring boats navigating rough waters and dramatic weather. Includes etchings from various eras.

'The Exposure of Prince Edwin', (1810).Artist: Milton

Cornelius Varley, 1781-1873, British, Laying Storm Anchors, undated. Watercolor, white gouache, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper.

Thomas Handforth, Casablanca Port, c. 1928, etching on paper.

OFF TO THE RESCUE, 1870

The monster. (IT)

Table of the Temple of Muses: L�andre and Hero (Dutuit 36, White 125) Cornelis II Bloemaert, said the young person (1603-1692). Table of the Temple of Muses: L�andre and Hero (Dutuit 36, White 125). Burin, 1655. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Harpooning the Whale in the Arctic Seas

Engraving depicting the accidental crashing of Mrs Graham's balloon near Piccadilly. Dated 19th Century

Winslow Homer, American (1836-1910), Breezing Up, c. 1879, graphite highlighted with black crayon and white chalk on wove paper

Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont (today's Dardanelles), and Leander, from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Engraving from 'Tableaux du temple des muses' (1655) by Michel de Marolles (1600 - 1681), known as the abbé de Marolles; a French churchman and translator.

'The Exposure of Prince Edwin', (1810).Artist: Milton

Edward Francis Finden, 1791-1857, British, Gibraltar, 1832-1834. Line engraving, engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.

Very rough sea during a storm with some sailing ships, Small seascape with ships in a storm Small seascapes (series title), print maker: Reinier Nooms, Reinier Nooms, Netherlands, 1650 - 1664, paper, etching, h 41 mm × w 105 mm

Drowning of Prince Johan Willem Friso, 1711, 1729 - 1730 print Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Oranje-Nassau, drowns while crossing the Moerdijk during heavy weather on July 14, 1711. The boat on which the carriage of the prince is capsized and several people get into the water. Northern Netherlands paper etching death by drowning (non-violent) Moerdijk

. A coastal landscape with a heavy storm. In the foreground a boat with Jonah thrown overboard by the fishermen. A sea sample swims next to the boat and is at the point to be sloping Jonah. The print has a Latin caption with Jonah's story.

"The Tempest": Prospero adrift, 1860. 'This is a superbly got-up edition of that romantic play of our great bard which, as much as any, affords materials for illustration. In the present case, while every other accessory of a drawing-room book has been lavishly exhibited in its decoration, it is embellished by numerous excellent engravings by Birket Foster, Gustave Dore, Frederick Skill, Alfred Slader, and Gustave Janet...The subject-matter of the illustration is to be found in that scene of the play in which Prospero describes to Miranda his desertion in an open boat at sea by his t

El hombre y las fieras. Cacerías y pescas primitivas. Caza del reno en Groenlandia. Cromo de Chocolates Eduardo Pi. Años 1957. Author: Joan Llaverias Labro.

Gustave Doré; The Stranding of Sinbad's Ship; Black and White Engraving

Viking Raiders Archibald Webb (ca.1800/British) Private Collection

The Self-righting Lifeboat Under Sail. Oldtimer Lifesavers - One of a series of sketches on the former U.S. Lifesaving Services (forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard), by M. J. Burns c. 1879 and c. 1900, published in the Old Harper's Weeklies. In some of the sketches there appear other initials in addition to Burns' name. Sketch from Old Harper's Weekly - on U.S. Lifesaving Service.

The ghost vessel. (IT)

The marine world according to medieval beliefs. Alexander the Great descending to the bottom of the sea in a glass barrel to study the marine wildlife. Engraving based on a 13th-century miniature. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.

Legs of the sea , Beaches, Swimmers, Sunbathing. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Legs of the sea , Beaches, Swimmers, Sunbathing. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Das Dampfschiff Newport begegnet einer großen Gruppe von Walen auf der Höhe der Delaware Vorgebirge, 1888, Amerika, Illustration, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt 1f-4999819

Shipwreck, Jan Lauwryn Krafft (I), After David Teniers, 1704 - 1765 print Four ships sail with a fierce storm for a rocky coast, where a ship has just been smashed. A few drowning people are already on land, but one of the crew members is still in the sea. There is a castle on the cliffs. Southern Netherlands paper etching shipwreck. castle

Icelandic seamen discover Greenland Date: 986

A hurricane sank Christopher Columbus's caravel Santa María in 1492. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

William Bernard Cooke, 1778-1855, British, The Mewstone, Entrance of Plymouth Sound, 1815. Line engraving, first published state on thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper.

The balcony, Dieppe, 1929 , by Christopher Nevinson.

Caricature of monarchical power of the 1830s. (TF)

Azulejo Tiles, Sao Bento Railway Station, Porto, Porto District, Portugal, Europe

A Tub for the Whale! Published 1806 England. James Gillrayís political satires often included biblical and nautical references. This etching bears a lengthy secondary title, which may have clarified the subject matter for contemporaries ìRepresenting an Empty-Barrel tossed out to amuse the great Leviathan John-Bull, in order to divert him from instantly laying violent hands upon the new Coalition Packet.î The monstrous whale with ìJohn Bullî horns symbolizes the British nation (as personified by the heroic and comedic archetype, John Bull), who attacks a packet boat steered by an unpopular new political group.. Hand-colored etching and aquatint on cream wove paper . James Gillray

De Amsterdamsche telephone, Nov. 1 1896, Marius Bauer, 1896 Cartoon on the attempts by Hubrecht, the director of the Bell Telephoon Maatschappij, to prevent Treub and the municipality of Amsterdam from ready the telephone network before November 1, 1896. Fight is depicted through the story of the Erlkönig van Goethe. Published in the addition of 'De Kroniek' of November 1, 1896. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. municipal government. telephone Amsterdam

At right, a large wooden tub is heaped with fish and crab; other fish are scattered on the ground in front of the tub. At left, a parrot is perched on a mast which is draped with a fish net. Vegetation in background. Black and white chalk on blue laid paper. Date: 1740. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Illustration for William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Act I, Scene I. From an 18th century engraving by Benjamin Smith after a work by George Romney.

DESTRUCTION OF THE SPA SALOON, SCARBOROUGH BY FIRE, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

c.1840 Art/Book Illustration, Sandwich Islanders playng in the surf, Frances Olmstead

A Light Gust of Wind. "- How lucky that Alphonse remembered bringing his waterproof hat along.... he at least can keep dry... - Oh leave me alone.... I can now already feel a cold coming to make ten policemen shiver.... my nose will most likely have to stay in bed for a couple of weeks... at least!," plate 8 from Les Canotiers Parisiens. Honoré Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1843. Dimensions: 200 × 245 mm (image); 265 × 341 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Honoré Daumier, Une Rencontre en pleine eau, 1843 Une Rencontre en pleine eau

Diligence of passengers passing through a torrent of water, Catalonia. Journey to Spain, 1862 by Jean Charles Davillier (1823-1883) Drawing by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Map Grosser Friedrichsberg 1694, 17th century, Otto von der Groeben, Brandenburg fortress, Guinea, coast, island, Atlantic Ocean, fort, colonisation, historical illustration 1885, Africa

A pencil and brush drawing by Gustav Gaul depicting the ghost ship of Venice, with gray lavated shading highlighting the vessel and surrounding water.

The exile of Tiberius, engraving from a painting by Felix Josep Barrias, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 398, Volume XVI, October 11-18, 1850.

Maart; De twaalf maanden.From a series of twelve prints, the imagination of the month of March. View of the beach with fishermen and boats.

The situation in the east, Marius Bauer, 1897 print Cartoon on the slow course of the negotiations on Crete between the countries of Turkey, Greece, England and Russia. Intributed as a windmill with Crete as a Molenas and the four powers such as the wicks. At the bottom of two lines from a children's fresh. The Hague paper windmill in landscape. political caricatures and satires Turkey. Greece. Crete. Russia. England

'And, lo ! Towards us in a bark comes an old man', c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré.

Mister Stewart on a lifeboat after their ship is wrecked by an iceberg 7, and enslaved person Congo and sailors hailing a passing ship after the wreck 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Eliza Rotch Farrars The Adventures of Congo in Search of his Master, J. Harris and Son, London, 1823. Eliza Farrar, 1791-1870, was the daughter of a Nantucket whaling family who white several childrens books.

High Hooks of Yesteryear, Artist Unknown

The Russian "Rurik" sets anchor near Saint Paul Island in the Bering sea in order to load food and equipment for the expedition to the chukchi sea in the north. Drawing by Louis Choris in 1817.

The Sea, 1905. Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914), Art et Décoration. Etching; sheet: 44.4 x 29.9 cm (17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.); platemark: 39.5 x 27.3 cm (15 9/16 x 10 3/4 in.).

An engraving depicting a Viking burial ship found in Norway. Dated 19th century

Columbus returns from the New World he has discovered. Szumacher, I. (Petersburg ; zakład graficzny ; ca 1860-1870), printing house, Daugull, August (1830-1899), graphic artist, Marechal, Charles Laurent (1801-1887), painter

Grace Darling rowing out to sea in a furious storm. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after C.J. Staniland.

Woodcut of Ferdinand Magellan (c1480 - 27th April 1521) the discovery of the Magellan Straits, dated 1522.

Thurnhammer fährt mit dem Boot bei Sturm auf die See hinaus, hohe Wellen, Risiko, 1880, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4904211

Affiche pour la "Fête de Charité", donnée au Trocadéro au bénéfice de la Société de secours aux familles des marins naufragés.. Chéret, Jules, 1836-1932. text. Prints, Posters. 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection

Un fourgon attelé (Titre de la série anglaise) A Hitched Wagon or A Horse-Drawn Cart (Title Page of the English Series). Artist: Théodore Géricault, French, 1791-1824

Shipwreck of a vessel-school, German, 1901. Artist: Unknown

Boats passing the waves of the sea, rib bar from in front of Whydah, Gulf of Benin, Dahomey Guinea. Central Africa, Old 19th century engraved illustration, Le Tour du Monde 1863

Dangerous Reef ca. 1760 After Joseph Vernet. Dangerous Reef. After Joseph Vernet (French, Avignon 1714-1789 Paris). ca. 1760. Engraving. Adrian Zingg (Swiss, St. Gallen 1734-1816 Leipzig). Prints

A burning merchant ship at sea, the crew took the lifeboats to safety, 1880, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

Fisherman from Gaëta, Italy, Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789-1850, Pen and Chinese ink, brush and brown watercolor on paper, mounted, A man stands in a rowing boat holding ropes with hands and mouth. The sailboats are shown in the background. Caption: 'Manière de pêcher a l'hameçon, a Gaëtte.', England, 1800-1825, Drawing, Drawing

Eddystone lighthouse, built on the Eddystone Rock by the English Civil Enggineer John Smeaton from 1757-1759. Chromolithograph after painting by JMW Turner

The River. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield by H.K. Browne known as Phiz

Calliope was known for "one of the most famous episodes of seamanship in the 19th century", when the vessel was the only one present to avoid being sunk or stranded in the tropical cyclone that struck Apia, Samoa in 1889

The poor princess falls into the sea and nearly drowned, vintage engraving. The poor princess falls into the sea and nearly drowned, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656311

Engraving of the Eddystone Lighthouse, during a storm, from the picture by J.M.W. Turner, 1878. Date: 1878

Any Thing to Keep Afloat a Little Longer, from Puck 1858-1894 United States. Color lithograph on newsprint . Joseph Keppler

La Traversée (The Passage). Dated: 1879-1885. Dimensions: plate: 32 x 23.9 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 43.2 x 31.2 cm (17 x 12 5/16 in.). Medium: etching, drypoint, roulette, and softground etching () in black on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Félix-Hilaire Buhot.

Land of the Moon, Plate 6 Filippo Morghen (Italian, 1730-1807). Land of the Moon, Plate 6, 1764. Etching on laid paper, 10 13/16 x 14 3/4 in. (27.5 x 37.5 cm). European Art 1764

Honoré Daumier, Divertissement renouvelé des Grecs, 19th century Divertissement ... renouvelé des Grecs

Venetian Gondola. From the Grand Procession of the Doge of Venice, attributed to Jost Amman, published Frankfurt 1597. From Science and Literature in The Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix published London 1878

Le Sauvetage DArion. Par un gros poisson dilettante…from Histoire Ancienne. Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879

La Fée des Alpes (1re planche) , Fictitious characters, Magic, Supernatural beings, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Manfred. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Luyken, Jan, Northern Netherlands, Henri Pruyt, garotté dans son bateau et brulé avec lazy hors de Worcom, Ao. 1574, Heinrich Pruyt ausserhalb Worcum in sein Schifflein gebünden und mit dem selbigen verbrent, Hendrik Pruyt te Workum burned in a barge, 1574, The Mennonite Hendrik Pruyt te Workum tied to a boat and then set on fire, 1574., print, history print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 115 mm, width 143 mm, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1683 - 1685, fourth quarter 17th century, paper, etching, Work conception

Parma's bridge near Antwerp blown up by a burner, Gustave Buschmann, 1842 print paper etching / counterproof projectiles, explosives, etc.. improvised bridge, temporary bridge ~ military engineering Antwerp

A Diving Machine on a New Construction May 31, 1806 Thomas Rowlandson British. A Diving Machine on a New Construction. May 31, 1806. Hand-colored etching. Prints

United Kingdom. London. Inside the Docks. Engraving by Gustave Dore, 19th century.

Water color; Night Fishing at the Entrance to a Cave, Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829, Pen and black ink and water colors on wove paper., Horizontal rectangle. Three fishermen in boat and another seated upon a stone are shown fishing in a huge cave lighted by a fire at the stern of the boat. A fifth man stands at left. Framing lines., Italy, 1828, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Fortunats adventure to water and land by Lembert Gallerie Droller Scenen, rd year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Netherlands, 1711, Prince Johan Willem Friso drowns at the Moerdijk, Death by drowning of Prince Johan Willem Friso, Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau, drowns while crossing the Moerdijk during heavy weather on 14 July 1711. The boats on which the prince's carriage is standing capsize and several people and horses end up in the water., print, picture, history print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 354 mm, width 512 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1853 - 1855, paper, lithography (technique)

Criticism of the attitude of England at the Belgian Revolution

Charon's Boat; ...or The Ghost of All the Talents taking their last voyage.. Gillray, James (1756-1815). Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) (1814-1886). Caricatures, Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1779 - 1805. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Charon (Greek mythology), Fates (Mythology), Catholic emancipation

Hunting Discoveries ... Discover that the only means you can adopt ..., Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, 1817, Etching, colored by hand, Sheet: 8 3/4 x 11 3/4in. (22.2 x 29.8cm)

John Bull in De Hagelbui, Petrus van Geldorp, 1900 Amsterdam paper storm at sea. political caricatures and satires. personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc. United Kingdom

Plenty of Good Fish in the Sea, Life Cartoons still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Barbour's Machine Thread , Boys, Thread, Ships, Whales, Boats, Oceans, Flax, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Cartoon on the surrender of the Scheldetol, 1863, 1863 print Cartoon on the surrender of the Scheldetol. The river god of the Scheldt smokes a pipe in a rocking chair. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 32, 8 August 1863. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper river-gods Scales

Girandola at Castel SantAngelo. The <girandole> was the firework display lit from the Castel SantAngelo in Rome during Easter festivities. It lasted a full hour, reaching a climax at nine oclock in the evening, with a fan-shaped shower of stars as the grand finale - the very moment Desprez depicted here. He lit up the structure, reflected in the River Tiber, with coloured printing ink.

Great Britain - 20th century- Sinking of passenger liner Titanic. Cover illustration from La Domenica del Corriere Sunday supplement to daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. 28th April 1912. Illustrator Achille Beltrame

Very unpleasant weather. Dated: 1820. Dimensions: image: 22.1 × 36.2 cm (8 11/16 × 14 1/4 in.) sheet: 25.6 × 39.4 cm (10 1/16 × 15 1/2 in.). Medium: etching and engraving with publisher's hand coloring. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Cruikshank.

Passager ayant payé sa place pour se rendre à New-Yorck, sur le Leviathan’, et attendant la mise à l’eau du navire, plate 479 from the series Actualités (Current Affairs). Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879

The Minot lighthouse in Boston being destroyed by a storm, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 428, Volume XVII, May 8-15, 1851.

The fourth Eddystone lighthouse in heavy seas. Built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England, which claimed up to 50 ships a year. Built by the English civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792) beginning in 1756 it was in operation for 127 years. Engraving from 'The Gallery of Nature and Art' by the Rev. Edward Polehampton (London, 1814).

Triere from Greece, Trireme, three-rower, was a rudder-driven warship of antiquity, from the 6th to the 3rd century B.C. the most important warship of the sea powers in the Mediterranean / Triere aus Griechenland, Trireme, Dreiruderer, war ein rudergetriebenes Kriegsschiff des Altertums, vom 6. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. das wichtigste Kriegsschiff der Seemächte im Mittelmeer, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Luik, Gordinne, The whale, verso - stamped, Sheet with a large representation of a whale. In the background fishermen, a ship and icebergs. In the bottom margin a caption. Numbered top right: No. 211., print, volksprent, volksprenten, prints, prenten, height 400 mm, width 270 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher, uitgever, 1894 - 1959, paper, papier, kleurlithografie (process), letterpress printing, print maker, printmaker

Sailing against the current (on a push boat). Szumacher, I. (Petersburg ; zakład graficzny ; ca 1860-1870), printing house, WT (fl. ca 1860-1870), graphic artist, Jenkins, Joseph John (1811-1885), painter

Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale, 1815. America, 19th century. Black crayon and pastel, with graphite and stylus; scraped and incised in places; sheet: 39.4 x 52.7 cm (15 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.).

The caption for this 1884 illustration reads; Vessel of War - painting in Temple of Isis at Pompeii. The image is based on Nicolinis drawing. The Temple of Isis, or Iseum, served the Isis cult and was not a public civil space. Isis herself must have held special meaning and value for the city of Pompeii.

In a Japanese legend, O Tsuru sees a giant carp, dead, washed up on the shore of Lake Biwa : it is a monster that eats dogs, cats and even swimming people Date: 1908

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