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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of sailboats on calm sea with a smoking volcano behind, and masts and seated figures in the foreground.

Last Glimpse of Vesuvius

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Plan drawing of a square monument with a circular central court, black colonnade and red accents, with competition lettering

Monument of the soldiers, sailors and marines

Christian Francis Rosborg, 1920

Pencil sketches of figures at a ship's railing with rigging and sea, on a tan sheet.

Sketches of Figures at Ships' Railings

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of a stone tower and arched bridge above a harbor with two sailboats on the water.

Villefranche

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Brown ink drawing of two friezes: winged figures with a sea monster above, a seated woman and an ox below.

Two Friezes with Women and Sea Monsters

Felice Giani, 1820

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

Sepia drawing of a formal tree-lined park with stone urns, steps, and a domed colonnaded pavilion with strolling figures.

Sketches of Lake Lugano

Arnold William Brunner, 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

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

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

Pencil sketch of a standing man in eighteenth-century coat and breeches with one hand on his hip, on cream paper.

Ship's Figurehead of Benjamin Franklin

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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

Harbor

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil and wash sketch of a boat's rigging and pulleys with a seated figure and choppy sea behind a wooden rail.

Study for "The Signal of Distress"

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 figures with a parasol on a sandy beach, wooden posts and a flat horizon in the distance.

Seashore

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Etching of moored sailing ships and their reflections on a calm harbor, with riverfront buildings and a smokestack at right.

Below Chestnut Street Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1880

Charcoal study of a rescuer in a cap holding an unconscious woman beneath a hanging rope and life ring.

Study for "The Life Line"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a village with church spires on a shore, with two sailboats on the water.

Two Sketches of Sailboats at St. Lawrence

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of sailboats on a choppy sea under a cloudy sky, with ships visible on the horizon.

Ships at sea

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Watercolor of a small boat's stern and oars in rough teal sea with white-capped waves, by Winslow Homer.

Study for "The Gulf Stream"

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch in two panels showing a sailboat near a shore and a steep wooded bluff above calm water with distant hills.

Two sketches of Ridges

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of a sailboat on a horizon under loose clouds, with hatched study forms and handwritten notes below.

Seascape

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of a figure in a hat leaning on a ship's railing beside rigging and deck structures.

Figure in Oilskins at a Ship's Railing

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of a floating iceberg and distant mountains with a small head study and handwritten color notes on aged paper.

Sketches of a Man's Head and Floating Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketches of dunes, a house among trees, and a wind-bent tree on a coastal page with handwritten colour notes.

Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey

Samuel Colman, 1870

Faint pencil sketch of a seated female nude with raised arm, with a distant shoreline and buildings on warm toned paper.

Beach Scene

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor sketch of a sailing ship's deck with rigging, masts, and a seated sailor beside a hanging boat.

On Board Ship

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Woodblock print of curling blue waves, a pine-covered cliff, Mount Fuji in the distance and a sailboat on the bay.

Great Wave at Satta Beach, Suruga, from the series The Thirty-Six Views of Fuji (Fuji Sanjuroku Kei)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1850