Historical River Landscapes

Delicate sketches featuring riverside scenes with boats, travelers, and waterfront buildings, showcasing soft tones and serene natural settings.

The Peacock Garden on the Amstel, draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, (school of), draughtsman: anonymous, 1600 - 1699, paper, h 164 mm × w 319 mm

Figures at a moored boat on a waterfront. On the waterfront a house that can be reached with a ladder. Leaf 49 Recto from a sketchbook with 91 sheets.

Handel in Vauxhall Gardens, Attributed to Edward Francis Burney, 1760-1848, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (18.1 × 10.5 cm), architectural subject, gardens, memorial, statue, England, Lambeth, London, Southwark, United Kingdom, Vauxhall Gardens

Manuscript page with a Project for a Fountain (recto) and Project and Plan for a Monumental Staircase (verso) ca. 1740-60 Luigi Vanvitelli Italian. Manuscript page with a Project for a Fountain (recto) and Project and Plan for a Monumental Staircase (verso). Luigi Vanvitelli (Italian, Naples 1700-1773 Caserta). ca. 1740-60. Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk or graphite (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite, red chalk (verso)

Sketches in Canebec, Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857-1925, Graphite and white heightening on brown paper, Dormer window, left; a rowboat, lower center; figures, right; sailboat on a lake, upper right., USA, 1883, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Standing and sitting figure on a waterfront. Leaf 50 Verso and 51 recto from a sketchbook with 53 sheets.

Nakch-i-Roustam. Vue des tombes royales.. Coste, Pascal, 1787-1879. Flandin, Eugène (1809-1876). Prints. 1851 - 1854. General Research Division. Iran, Iran , Antiquities

Near Gravesend from the High Road, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, 1817, Pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 7/8 inches (13.3 × 20 cm)

Figures with a well. Landscape with a gate, trees and well. At the water well there are three girls with vases and a man with a donkey. Leaf 1 Recto from a sketchbook with 13 sheets.

Watercolour - The East View of Montreal

Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou: The Enlightened Stone Retreat, after 1490. Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427-1509). Album leaf, ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper; image: 31.2 x 40.8 cm (12 5/16 x 16 1/16 in.); overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.).

View of a city (Leiden ), Jan Vincentsz. van der Vinne (possibly), 1673 - 1721, draughtsman: Jan Vincentsz. van der Vinne, (possibly), draughtsman: P. Rutgers, (rejected attribution), 1673 - 1721, paper, pen, brush, h 81 mm × w 167 mm

Drawing, Sailboat studies; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900); USA

Copy poems in the Plataan Pavilion, Wang Luonian, 1914 Landscape with figures. The mist spots in the trees give a strange transparent effect. Signed and dated. In wooden box. Shanghai ink. paper Landscape with figures. The mist spots in the trees give a strange transparent effect. Signed and dated. In wooden box. Shanghai ink. paper

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior of a Cottage. Artist: Eugène Cicéri (French, Paris 1813-1890 Fontainebleau). Dimensions: sheet: 12 3/8 x 19 1/16 in. (31.4 x 48.4 cm). Date: 1830-90. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Chaty w Pilang, w tle Himalaje. Hohenzollern, Waldemar von (książę pruski ; 1817-1849), draughtsman, cartoonist

Bound Print, Ceiling Design; Designed by Gilles-Marie Oppenord (French, 1672-1742); Print Maker: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); Published by Chez Huquier; France; etching and engraving on paper

Bliej Kultury Stanis Awski, Jan (1860 1907)

Havengekt in Rotterdam, Adolf Le Comte, 1860 - 1921 drawing paper. ink pen harbour Rotterdam

Parterre du Palais de Nancy / The Garden Palace of Nancy early 17th century Jacques Callot French. Parterre du Palais de Nancy / The Garden Palace of Nancy 335051

Print made by George Hollis, 1792-1842, British, St. Mark's Place, Venice - Juliet and her Nurse, 1842. Etching; open etched state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

A brown ink over pencil sketch by Preller from 1875-1876 showing a landscape with the Castello di Torcrescenza in Rome and a cowherd on shallow water.

Drawing, A Landscape; Italy; charcoal, pen and ink on paper

Jacques Callot, Crayfish Looking at the Sun, 1628 Crayfish Looking at the Sun

Villa d'Essling, 16, Boulevard Mass�na, 1895 F. Laughing. "Villa d'Essling, 16, Boulevard Mass�na". Paris (XIIIth Arr.). Feather, Chinese ink on cardboard, 1895.

Gorin II Tomb Claude-Louis Bernier (1755-1830). Grave morin II. Black stone. 1786.

Schoener Willem Barentsz off the coast of Nova Zembla, 1880 Page 52 Recto from a sketchbook with 110 sheets meant during the expedition to Nova Zembla in 1880. New Zembla chalk. pencil ships, boats on land, beached. sailing-ship, sailing-boat New Zembla

Mill on a dike in Reeuwijk, 1866 - 1922 In the foreground a figure in a rowing boat. Leaf 3 Verso and 4 Recto from a sketchbook with 44 sheets. Reeuwijk paper. chalk windmill in landscape. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone). rowing-boat, canoe, etc. Reeuwijk

Project for the bridge of the Caribbean supported by boats

De Brink in Dwingeloo, 1732 Leaf 46 Recto from a sketchbook with 51 sheets. Dwingeloo paper. pencil Dwingeloo Leaf 46 Recto from a sketchbook with 51 sheets. Dwingeloo paper. pencil Dwingeloo

View of russian town by Ivan Mikhaylovich Belonogov, watercolour and ink on paper, 1844, 1800-1871, Russia, Rostov , State Open-air Museum Rostov Kremlin

A pencil drawing by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller showing various sketches of figures, natural forms, and compositional studies for artistic practice.

Shepherd pair with herd, 1823 - 1900 copper (metal) etching

Roche, Pierre (N.1855-D.1922-01-18), CARRETTE AU CAIRE) ("Farains car with cynocephalles") (main title), 1911. Gypsography, drawing of brown and brown. Small palace, museum Fine arts from the city of Paris.

Sketch of a Building, Clarkson Stanfield, 1793-1867, British, 1863, Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 × 7 1/4 inches (12.7 × 18.4 cm) and Binding: 5 1/4 inches (13.3 cm)

Channel with lock. Page 51 From a sketchbook with 175 pages.

Woman with horse in landscape - unidentifiedillustration. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Hodnet Church, June 1, Maria Leycester, 1798-1870, 1821, Graphite, brown wash, and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 3/8 inches (16.2 × 23.8 cm) and Binding: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm)

Group figures around a building, 1859 - 1864 A group of figures watches how two men run on a building. Leaf 39 Recto from a sketchbook with 77 sheets. paper. pencil village street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Project for the place of the throne Hector HOREAU (1801-1872). "Project for the place of the throne". Drawing.

Stüler August (1800-1865), monument to Hahnemann in Leipzig (04.1850): Perspective view. Pencil watercolored, white heighted on the cardboard, 23.2 x 28.5 cm (including scan edges) Stüler Friedrich August (1800-1865): Denkmal für Hahnemann, Leipzig

Danube views, Syrmia, City of Semlin, After, Jakob Alt -, Drawer, Adolf Friedrich Kunike -, Lithographer, Adolf Friedrich Kunike -, editor

Sketchbook, Preziosi, Amadeo, 1816-1882, pencil, gray wash, white heightening, 1875, The sketchbook by Maltese artist Preziosi comprises drawings of sites and cultural monuments in Paris, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, Marseilles, Messina, and London, with views of Trafalgar Square, St. Paul's Cathedral, Hampton Court, Westminster Abbey, and the British Museum.

The Scheldt at Veere. Draughtsman: Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande. Dating: 1890. Measurements: h 240 mm × w 333 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Kościół p.w. Narodzenia Najświętszej Marii Panny w Lubaniu; verso: okolice Cieplic (). Blaschnik, Arthur (1823-1918), draughtsman, cartoonist

Narbonne, France, Henry Swinburne, 1743-1803, British, undated, Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Mount: 11 1/8 × 16 3/8 inches (28.3 × 41.6 cm) and Sheet: 2 5/16 × 4 5/16 inches (5.9 × 11 cm)

Port Delfshaven, Zuyeder See Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677), Hogenberg, Abraham (Fl. 1608-1659); 1635 (1635-00-00-1635-00-00);The Netherlands, Rehdigeran (collection), Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, architecture, storms, lakes, ports, saillets

View of Vlaardingen, Floris Arntzenius, c. 1883 - c. 1914 Page 45 and Page 46 from a sketchbook with 82 pages. Vlaardingen paper. chalk canals, waters (in city). ships (in general). civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Vlaardingen

James McNeill Whistler, London Bridge, c 1875 London Bridge

Study sheet with a farm, hand carts and figures. Leaf 6 Recto from a sketchbook with 77 sheets.

Figure on a path along a mill.Page 69 from a sketchbook with 74 pages.

Charles Gore, 1729-1807, British, Lorch on the Rhine, between 1790 and 1799. Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, moderately textured, blued white laid paper.

An English Man-of-War, Port View from the Stern, Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633-1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672), ca. 1675, Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, Mount: 17 1/4 x 26 7/16 inches (43.8 x 67.1 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 13 15/16 x 23 1/16 inches (35.4 x 58.5 cm), and Sheet: 13 1/8 x 22 3/16 inches (33.3 x 56.4 cm), architectural subject, man-of-war, marine art, relief, sculpture, ship

Year. 17 "Potlood verse R.O.

Samuel Davis, 1757-1819, British, Chandernagore, West Bengal, undated. Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper.

Paris, View of the Pont Royal bridge and Bulwar Quai d'Orsay; Arnout, Jules Louis (1814-Ca 1868), Lemercier, Benard et Cie (Paris; Litographic Plant; Fl. 1837-Ca 1880), Hauser, A. (Paris; Publisher; 18 ..- 18 ..); 19th century (1801-00-00-1900-00-00);

View on the Ohio, near Pittsburgh.. Wall, William Guy (b. 1792). Stone, William L. (William Leete) (1792-1844). Prints, Illustrations. 1825. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Erie Canal (N.Y.), Ohio River

Van (Arménie).. Thomas, Félix, 1815-1875. Prints, Illustrations. 1867. General Research Division. Assyria , Antiquities & archaeological sites, Armenia

Map of the Maarsseveen Heerlijkheid, consisting of four parts, Philibert Bouttats, After Jan van der Heyden, 1690 - 1691 print Map of a part of the Maarsseveen glory. At the top a decorated banderol with the title. The banderol is decorated with flowers and carries the weapon of client Joan II Huydecoper from Maarsseveen and that of his wife Sophia Coymans. Below it a large banderole with a view of Goudestein, a country estate in the glory. A few pairs and a shepherd walk along the river Vecht. Boots and swimming swans on the river. The allegorical figure of fame comes from behind the banderol. She blows on a trumpet with a banner and drives away a devil. The rest of the print consists of a map of Maarsseveen. In the left under corner a legend with the weapon of Maarsseveen above it. To the left of a bowl. At the bottom left and right images of an arcadian landscape with putti, hard -working farmers and shepherds. Two hunting scenes in the top right corner. paper etching / engraving m

Thomas Handforth, Farwest Fisheries, 1907-1948, etching on paper.

Karnak, 10:00 pm, 22 January 1867 (213). Date/Period: 1867. Landscape. Watercolor with pen in black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 84 mm (3.30 in); Width: 173 mm (6.81 in). Author: Edward Lear.

Edward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Sabooa, 1867. Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper.

Mill and a grazing cow on a waterfront, 1876 - 1877 A church tower in the background. Two figures in a rowing boat on the water. Leaf 39 Recto from a sketchbook with 41 sheets. paper. pencil landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) (+ landscape with figures, staffage). windmill in landscape. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.

Faïence plate with shepherd scene, anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1775 Plate of Faïence. Blue painted with a shepherd scene. Delftprint Maker: Utrecht . Plate of Faïence. Blue painted with a shepherd scene. Delftprint Maker: Utrecht .

Edward Lear, 1812-1888, British, (Sheikh Abu Fodde) Om el Koussour, 1867. Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Beach face, Elias Stark, 1887 print View of the beach and the sea. In the foreground some figures on a dune top. Nieuwer-Amstel paper etching beach. dune coast

Aesacus and Hesperie, plate 66 from Liber Studiorum Published 1819 England. Etching and engraving in brown on ivory laid paper . Joseph Mallord William Turner

Design for two wallpaper surfaces: River with ships in the Netherlands, Jurriaan Andriessen, c. 1752 - c. 1819 drawing Design for a room wall. paper. watercolor (paint). ink. graphite (mineral) pen / brush

A View of Vevey with La Tour de Peilz in the Distance. Dated: 1781. Dimensions: overall: 25 x 32.5 cm (9 13/16 x 12 13/16 in.). Medium: pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Francis Towne.

Artist: John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843, Vue deParis, ca.1786, Pen and brown ink, 10.8 × 17.5 cm (4 1/4 × 6 7/8in.), Made in United States, Depicted Paris, France, American, 18thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

James William Giles, 1801-1870, British, Nemi, 1824. Brown wash, graphite, pen and brown ink, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper.

John Varley, 1778-1842, British, From an Album of Sixty-one Topographical Sketches. Graphite.

'The Marina of Brest', c1750-1810. Artist: Nicolas Marie Ozanne

Algerian scene 1925 by Albert Marquet (1875 - 1947); French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes

Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, Cart and Driver, undated. Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Triumph of a Roman Squire, James Ensor, circa 1860-1849, print, Belgian Art

Tramp with Bundle (Le chemineau a la besace). Dated: 1914. Medium: drypoint and (etching). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: TEOPHILE STEINLEN.

A travel sketch by Valentin Wagner from 1631-1638 depicting Mr. V. Wagner's travel company moving between Nuremberg and Regensburg, executed in ink and feather.

Country road with bare trees. Draughtsman: George Hendrik Breitner. Dating: c. 1873 - c. 1886. Place: The Hague. Measurements: h 201 mm × w 160 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Drawing (Italy)

Bomb. Also a study, possible from a ton or vessel. Leaf 20 Recto from a sketchbook with 34 sheets.

Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, View from Panwell, undated. Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Edward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Karnak, 9:30 pm, 22 January 1867 (212), 1867. Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781-1845, British, active in India, View of Calcutta and its Environs:Garden Reach - Calcutta, undated. Watercolor, white gouache, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray, green, wove paper.

Ink, feather, and watercolor drawing by Valentin Wagner showing Frankenberg in Hesse in 1632, highlighting town architecture and surrounding landscape.

Fig. 1. Tschabel Esselsele, c'est-à-dire Montagne de la Chaîne; Fig. 2. Dessein particulier de la pierre, à la quelle selon la tradition étoit attachée la chaîne, pour fermer le Nil. (a. Trous pour pouvoir monter, b. Rochers de granit.). Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708-1742. Illustrations, Prints. 1780. General Research Division. Egypt , Description and travel, Egypt , Antiquities, Cliffs , Egypt, Mountains , Egypt

View of Zwolle, from the south. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch. Draughtsman: Moses ter Borch. Dating: c. 1647 - c. 1657 and/or c. 1653 - c. 1663. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 163 mm × w 207 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Persépolis. Palais no. 2. Élévation géométrale. (Planche quadruple.) Takht-i-Djemchid Takht-i Jamshîd. Flandin, Eugène (1809-1876). Prints. 1851 - 1854. General Research Division. Iran, Iran , Antiquities

Ruins of a wall near the temple at Offedina Offelina, or Maharraqa, Nubia (Pl. 29) top; Arabac Arabic dance (Pl. 30) bottom.. Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823. Prints. 1820. General Research Division. Egypt , Antiquities, Nubia , Antiquities, Folk dancing , Arabic, Bedouins, Nubia

View of Calcutta and its Environs:Garden Reach - Calcutta, Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781-1845, British, active in India, undated, Watercolor, white gouache, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray, green, wove paper, Mount: 7 7/8 × 15 inches (20 × 38.1 cm) and Sheet: 6 3/4 × 14 1/8 inches (17.1 × 35.9 cm)

View of the castle of Oijen. Draughtsman: Josua de Grave. Dating: 26-Jun-1682. Measurements: h 159 mm × w 610 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Meistersinger von Nürnberg' set, created in 1896 by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The artwork is a pencil drawing on brown paper, measuring 19 x 23 inches and is mounted

View of the Castle Sant'Angelo and the Ospedale di Santo Spirito recto. Dated: c. 1552/1566. Dimensions: overall: 28.4 x 41.6 cm (11 3/16 x 16 3/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Attributed to Étienne Dupérac.

Godfrey Thomas Vigne, 1801-1863, British, Greytown, undated. Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Column of Antoninus and a Roman Obelisk ca. 1543-70 Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one

Ruins after the gunpowder disaster, 1807, Friedrich Christoph Dietrich, after Carel Lodewijk Hansen, 1807 print Face from the Nieuweegbrug on the destroyed area after the gunpowder disaster, a canal in the extension of the Rapenburg, in Leiden on January 12, 1807. Cleaning up after the disaster, the caring of victims. Central the boring hall. See also the Pendant. Netherlands paper etching gunpowder disaster Rapenburg. Stone barn. Boring hall

Sketches. From: An 1876 sketchbook., 1876, by Petrus van der Velden. Gift of W. Fergusson Hogg, 1967.

Windmill II. Pruszyński, Aureliusz (Kraków ; zakład artystyczny ; 1873-post 1930), printing house, Wyczółkowski, Leon (1852-1936), graphic artist

Chelsea Shop. James McNeill Whistler; American, 1834-1903. Date: 1897-1900. Dimensions: 126 x 210 mm. Watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

View from the Battery towards the City, 1836. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853). Pen and black ink, pencil and grey wash on paper; sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.). Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is known for initiating Danish paintings Golden Age—a period of cultural efflorescence during the first half of the 19th century. Marine subjects were among the artists favorite, and the primary focus of his work beginning in the 1820s. Dating from this period, this drawing depicts Russian ships viewed from a fortress in Copenhagens harbor. In his journal, Eckersberg described making the trip to see the fleet with friends and waiting for the waters to become calm enough for sailing. To convey this experience, he juxtaposed precise perspective of the landscape with expressively rendered clouds.

Montferberg. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: 1770 - 1778. Place: Montferland. Measurements: h 155 mm × w 195 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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