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Historical Maritime Scenes

Artworks depicting various sailing vessels and maritime activities on turbulent waters. Illustrations range from etchings to watercolor, showcasing maritime history.

Sloop at a sailing ship on the water, draughtsman: Johan Conrad Greive, 1855, paper, brush, pen, h 90 mm × w 140 mm
Sloop at a sailing ship on the water, draughtsman: Johan Conrad Greive, 1855, paper, brush, pen, h 90 mm × w 140 mm
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Sails in the sunshine - Chioggia. Bohuszewicz, Jan (1878-1935), painter
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Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, Marine Dabblers, 1811. Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Italian Sketchbook Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880). Italian Sketchbook, 1867-1868. Graphite on tan, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, 5 x 9 x 7/16 in. (12.7 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm). This sketchbook served as a travel diary for the Hudson River School landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford during his journeys in France, Switzerland, and Italy. In this two-page spread depicting the church of Santa Caterina del Sasso, perched precariously on the edge of a cliff overlooking Lake Maggiore in Italy, Giffords precise and assured lines exemplify his skills as a draftsman. A practitioner of plein air sketching, the artist used these drawings as preparatory studies for paintings executed later in his studio. The small framed motifs that appear on this and other pages of the sketchbook show his initial experiments with composition. American Art 1867-1868
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Seashore with Two Figures and a Distant Town, John Varley, 1778-1842, British, undated, Watercolor and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 inches (9 x 13.9 cm), dock, figures, landscape, piers, rocks (landforms), sea, ships, ships, shore (landform), town
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Moonlight in the Harbor at Dieppe. Dated: c. 1885. Dimensions: plate: 47.2 x 29.5 cm (18 9/16 x 11 5/8 in.) plate: 50.4 x 32.2 cm (19 13/16 x 12 11/16 in.). Medium: color etching and aquatint on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henri-Charles Guérard.
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unknown artist, nineteenth century, Aldborough, September 4th, 1812, 1812. Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.
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Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, Marine Dabblers, 1811. Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Winslow Homer, Hauling in the Nets, American, 1836 - 1910, 1887, watercolor over graphite
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The Giudecca John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856-1925). The Giudecca, ca. 1904. Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor and graphite, with graphite underdrawing, 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm). Instead of layering multiple colors as he often did in his watercolors, here Sargent laid in colors almost individually and side by side, creating an impressionistic appearance, especially in the water. This work was painted in mostly translucent washes and without the addition of any zinc white paint. Sargent used a tool, possibly the end of his brush, to scratch white lines on the hull of the sailing boat at left. Typically, the darker browns at center and in the portholes are enriched with medium (possibly gum arabic), giving them a glossy appearance. The stickiness of the extra binder is evident from the brush hairs trapped in the paint. American Art ca. 1904
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NewAmsterdam. Artist: Reginald Marsh, American, 1898-1954, B.A. 1920
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Quai de Paris, à Rouen Camille Jacob Pissarro (Saint Thomas, (former Danish West Indies), 1830-1903, Paris, France). Quai de Paris, à Rouen, 1896. Etching on buff laid paper, Sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (23.5 x 31.1 cm). European Art 1896
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Study for Solomon’s Ship” in The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897
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Charles-Emile Cuisin (1832-1900). Moored boats. Oil on canvas. 1832-1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 76092-11
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Tile tape with seascape. Tile tile of 30 tiles (6 x 5) in a wooden table with a blue-painted seascape with two sailing ships in the foreground. At the bottom right of a tonne in the water, marked: C: Mb.
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Pitched It Sheer into the River . Where It Still Is Seen in the Summer. Artist: Frederic Remington (American, Canton, New York 1861-1909 Ridgefield, Connecticut). Dimensions: 20 x 28 1/4in. (50.8 x 71.8cm). Date: 1889.In 1888 Remington was commissioned to illustrate The Song of Hiawatha, the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for a deluxe edition published in 1891. By then a sophisticated practitioner of the grisaille technique, Remington executed twenty-two black-and-white oil paintings, one for each of the poem's cantos. This depiction accompanies canto 6, which describes Hiawatha's two closest friends: Chibiabos, the musician, and Kwasind, the strong man. The jagged boulder in the river alludes to one of Kwasind's feats of strength. Taunted with accusations of laziness, he threw a huge rock into the Pauwating River, where it remained visible above the waterline during the summer months. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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William Alexander, 1767-1816, British, One of the Embassy Yachts, ca. 1794. Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper.
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Baude, Charles, inventor: Albert Edelfelt, work, Child's funeral, according to Albert Edelfelt, woodcut, graphics, dimensions : leaf width 57 cm, leaf height 40.7 cm, image width 44.4 cm, image height 29 cm
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Four Hutsuls Crossing a River Yaremche Board from the Portfoiio: Leon Wyczółkowski, Hutsul Portfoiio , Kraków 1910 Wyczółkowski, Leon (1852 1936)
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Thomas Creswick, 1811-1869, British, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, ca. 1838. Oil on panel.
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Celebration of the Fish on the Departure of the Ship's Boy (The Fish) Made 1861 France. Etching on ivory laid paper . Charles François Daubigny
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Title Page (Titre du cahier de six eaux-fortes). Dated: 1862. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Johan Barthold Jongkind.
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White Ships John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856-1925). White Ships, 1908. Translucent and touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist with graphite underdrawing, 13 7/8 x 19 3/8 in. (35.2 x 49.2 cm). In this work, one of the latest of the watercolors in the 1909 purchase, Sargent used a small amount of clear wax on the right side of the larger boat in order to repel the blue washes and create highlights. This is the only watercolor in the collection from the 1909 purchase in which wax resist is found. Sargents use of this technique later increased significantly; most of Bostons watercolors purchased in 1912 contain wax. American Art 1908
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Adolphe Appian, Canal aux Martiques Canal aux Martiques
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Oil painting.Oil painting.Signed A. Nordling 1877.adolf Fredrik Nordling, b. 1840 29/3 in Karlskrona, d. 1888 27/1 in Stockholm.See f. Ö. Swedish art dictionary. In the case of the glass and frame. The fabric's B = 885 mm H = 512 mm frame B = 1158 mm H = 792 mm wheel stronger and sailing ship, Danish.1877 - 1877.
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Copy of a Petrus van der Velden painting - "Funeral, Isle of Marken", 1870s, by Petrus van der Velden.
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Lithography
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JWPs kanja moored beside the East bank of the Nile at Luxor, 1838-1843. Watercolour. Emile Prisse dAvennes, (1807-1879) French architect, engineer and orientalist. Egypt
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Pearl diverts game, 1870 - 1899 print. gameboard Board game with a large performance of a boat with pearl divers in the Dutch East Indies. The lower half of the performance shows a division with figures and a pearl diver. The rules in book print in the sub -margin. Netherlands paper letterpress printing pearl fishing, pearl diving; coral fishing Dutch East Indies, The
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East Cowes Castle, the Seat of J. Nash, Esq., the Regatta Beating to Windward, JMW Turner, 1828, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, North America
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floating baths in the estuary of Huelva, 1897, oil on canvas, Fernando Martinez Checa, Huelva Museum, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain.
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Design for board for the Royal Paketvaart Maatschappij, Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, c. 1874 - c. 1945 drawing Design for pottery. paper. deck paint. ink. pencil pen / brush dish, plate, saucer. names of organizations, companies, trade unions, etc.
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Daniel Boone Monument, Virginia Beach, Va. , Monuments & memorials, Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Goyen, Jan van, Antwerp, Maes, Joseph, La Rivière, Reproduction of a painting of sailing ships on a river by Jan van Goyen, photomechanical print, page, reproduction, photographs, photographically illustrated books, height 120 mm, width 152 mm, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, photographer, 1873 - 1878, paper, papier, Woodburytypie, clichémaker, Dutch, 1596-01-13 - 1656-04-27
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Scenic, Hand painted on paper, mounted on canvas, One panel of a set. Sailing vessel with French flag; buoy in foreground. Mountains in the distance. Village with lighthouse at left. Blue-green sea, graded sky., France, ca. 1840, Wallcoverings, Scenic
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View of Dordrecht. Draughtsman: Roelant Roghman. Dating: 1637 - 1692. Measurements: h 190 mm × w 295 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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DIONIS BAIXERAS, SIGLO XX. M.N.A.C. Museum: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART DE CATALUNYA.
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Collier's Illustrated Weekly, "Trying Out" The America's Cup Defenders Off Newport, Vollum XXVII No. 19, August 10, 1901, Price Ten Cents. Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925. text. Posters. 1901. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. United States, Sailing