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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Woodblock print of travelers and a horse at a teahouse beside a bridge, with thatched houses and a blue sea behind.

Totsuka Teahouse, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Painting of rough surf breaking in white foam against dark rocks on a coast under a grey sky.

Maine Surf, Mt. Desert Island

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a two-masted schooner on calm water with its reflection, and a smaller sailboat to the right.

Two-masted Schooner

Winslow Homer, 1890

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a trident, scrolls, and a dolphin spouting water among waves.

Design for Cartouche Evoking the Sea

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Small sketch of a pale iceberg on a dark sea under a pink and mauve twilight sky.

Iceberg at Twilight, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a three-masted schooner near a rocky, wave-broken coastline with an oval museum stamp in the corner.

Schooner Near a Rocky Coast

Winslow Homer, 1880

Engraving of a busy 16th-century printmaking workshop with workers at presses, benches and inking tables.

Engraving on metal; Engravers on a ship

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch of clouds and sea with handwritten color notes such as 'silver' and 'sky golden milky' on cream paper.

Moonlit Sky at Sea, Egypt

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of two women seated on a sea wall by the water, with rocks and shoreline sketched behind them.

Two Women Seated on a Sea Wall, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Etching of a shipyard with a wooden hull, sailing ship, church clock tower, workmen, anchor and barrels on a wharf.

Wharf, Kennebunkport, Maine

Harry Fenn, 1880

Oil sketch of a stormy sea with dark clouds, choppy waves, a distant sailboat, and a rocky headland at left.

Storm off Great Head, Mt. Desert Island

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of women carrying baskets on a beach with sailboats on sand and figures near the sea.

Beach Scene with Women Carrying Baskets, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch of tall rocky cliffs and jagged peaks above calm water, drawn on pale paper.

Iceberg Panorama, Canada, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of women gathered on a beach with sailboats on the water and a seated figure in the lower right.

Groups of Women at Beach, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a headscarf and long skirt, seen from behind, standing on a sloping sandy ground.

Woman Looking Out to Sea, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil and white highlight sketch of a jagged iceberg rising above a calm sea on buff paper.

Iceberg near Battle Harbour, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a square-rigged ship on choppy sea with hatched wind strokes at the right edge.

Square Rigger in a Stormy Sea

Winslow Homer, 1900

Pencil sketch of a ship's railing, deck planks, and coiled rope on pale paper, with loose horizontal lines suggesting the sea

Sketch of Details of a Ship's Railing

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and headlands on tan paper, labeled Great Island.

Coastline Cliffs of Great Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a two-masted schooner with a dinghy on calm water, with faint distant sailboats in the upper right.

Schooner with Dinghy

Winslow Homer, 1880

Blue sheet with white chalk strokes showing waves, foam and a seagull in flight over the sea.

Seagull and Waves

Winslow Homer, 1900

Pencil sketch of icebergs above a horizon line on tan paper, with white highlights suggesting ice, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a dory crowded with men, with loose lines suggesting waves and water below the boat.

Dory Filled with Men

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a diver plunging head first among rocks and seaweed, legs raised, on a pale sheet of paper.

Conch Divers

Winslow Homer, 1880

Wood engraving of a couple by the moonlit sea above a meadow scene with reclining figures, a girl, and ducks.

Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraving of holidaymakers on a rocky seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, and sailboats offshore.

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of a ship under construction in Gloucester Harbor, with workers on scaffolding and children playing with toy b

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor, from Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873, p. 900

Winslow Homer, 1870

Sailors struggle with a heavy canvas sail on a snowy deck while rigging and a mast rise into a stormy sky.

Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail off the Coast

Winslow Homer, 1860