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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of a small harbor with moored sailboats, masts, a stone archway and tiled-roof buildings along the shore.

Small Fishing Port

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Oil sketch of green hills sloping to a blue sea with distant mountains, with pencil outlines of boats in the foreground.

Sea View from Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a seated man on a boat deck beside a mast, with sea and rigging sketched in the background.

Man on Deck with Ship's Bell

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of crossed legs in trousers and a shoe, with a small sailboat on water above, and a brown stain.

Sketch of Crossed Legs

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of a seabird, a rowboat with a seated figure, rocky cliffs and a distant shoreline over water.

Sketches from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a man seated on a ship deck, head raised, with diagonal rigging lines in the upper right.

Man on a Deck Striking a Ship's Bell

Winslow Homer, 1900

Pencil sketch of Florentine riverfront buildings with tiled roofs and small rowboats on the water below.

From my Window, Florence

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of icebergs on a horizon with rippling sea below and handwritten color notes on the water.

Sketches at Sea near Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor of children in rowboats on calm water, one child waving arms in a straw hat, others in background boats.

Four Rowboats with Children

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of two scenes with sailboats on water, a rocky headland on the left and a treeline with houses on the shore.

Two Sketches of Sailboats Sailing

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of a jagged iceberg with layered faces and a low tapering section extending to the right on cream paper.

Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

A Sailing Ship

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Pencil sketch of a curving bay with white buildings, trees and hills beyond, inscribed Tangier, on tan paper.

Bay of Tangiers

Arnold William Brunner, 1890

Pencil sketch of five icebergs on a horizon line, with white highlights and handwritten dates July 5th and July 6th.

Five Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a two-masted schooner with dinghies alongside, and a small rowboat with a rower below.

Schooner and Three Dinghies

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil drawing of mythological figures battling winged sea monsters in two horizontal friezes, by Felice Giani, 1800.

Triton Combats Sea Monster

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a flat-topped island above two studies of floating icebergs on tan paper, with handwritten location note.

Island off Henley Harbour with Two Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of rolling storm waves and clouds with a small distant ship on the horizon, on toned paper.

Combers in a Stormy Sea

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of two sailboats on water at the center of a pale cream sheet, with faint smudges across the page.

Sailboats

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Floating Icebergs near St. Lewis Bay, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sheet of pencil and white-heightened sketches showing sailing boats, schooners and sails on a tan ground.

Sketches of Sailing Boats

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor design of green draped curtains with tassels beside a painted garden scene of costumed figures and a balustrade.

Design for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, 1870

Pencil sketch of a rural landscape with conifers, farm buildings, a fence, and a distant horizon on tan paper.

View to the Sea, Grand Manan Island, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of three sailing boats: a schooner on calm water, a small sloop, and a grounded boat on rocks.

Three Sketches of Schooners

Winslow Homer, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a river harbor with sailboats, a church spire, hills and mountains under clouds.

Harbor Scene

Jan Griffier, 1700

Two Sailing Ships

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil and white chalk sketches of four sloops on tan paper, one with a bright sail and reflection.

Four Sketches of Sloops

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of masted sailing ships and a rowboat moored on calm harbor water, drawn on tan paper.

Harbor

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Narrow oil sketch of a pale iceberg floating on dark sea water beneath a muted brown sky.

Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch on tan paper of rigging lines and a ship's bell form, with handwritten notes Right and Green at upper right.

Sketch of a Boat Deck and a Ship's Bell

Winslow Homer, 1900