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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of figures in a rowboat, a bay window outline, and a hull in water, with handwritten notes reading Jaffa.

Boats and a Bay Window, Jaffa, Palestine (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

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

Charcoal sketch of a figure in a hat looking out at sailboats and rowboats on a sea with rocks and other figures.

Beach with Boats and People, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Charcoal sketch of fishermen hauling a wooden boat up a beach under a cloudy sky.

Fishermen Beaching a Boat, 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 figures amid rough waves and a curved boat or sky form, with loose hatched shading.

Two Women Lashed to a Boat's Mast

Winslow Homer, 1890

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of a ship deck with rigging, a mast, rough waves and figures near the mast.

Ship Deck with Two Women Lashed to the Mast

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor of two rowboats on a pale beach under a dark overcast sky, with two figures and distant ships on the horizon.

Stern View of Two Rowboats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of ship masts, rigging lines and a curved sail on a cut sheet of paper.

Sketches of Ships' Masts

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of fishing boats on a beach with figures carrying baskets and two sailboats on the sea behind.

Beach with Four Fishing Boats, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Loose charcoal sketch of two sailboats on choppy sea, one large sail in the foreground and a smaller boat on the horizon.

Sailing Boats

Winslow Homer, 1890

Brown wash drawing of a crowded lifeboat battling rough waves, with a distant ship on a stormy sea.

The Life Boat

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a fisherman in a boat on water, with figures and boats near a rocky shore under a pale sky.

Three Boats with Fishermen Setting Out a Net

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of several sailboats and a rowboat on calm water, with a shoreline at center right.

Six Studies of Sailboats

Winslow Homer, 1880

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