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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

354 works

Watercolor of a large paddle steamer and several ships with flags anchored in a misty harbor, with rowboats on calm water.

The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Etching of a harbor with stone towers, sailing ships, a donkey rider, walking figures and large trees.

Coast Scene with an Artist

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1638-41

Etching of a sailing boat on the sea beside weathered wooden posts and a seated figure on a shoreline with windmills.

The Little Marine -- Souvenir of Medway

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1879

Caricature drawing of a large-headed bearded man seated on crates aboard a boat pulled by a mermaid across waves.

Samuel P. Avery Transporting His Treasures Across the Sea

Theodore Wust, ca. 1875-80

Mezzotint of a man in the sea beneath a billowing balloon with rigging lines, under a stormy sky with a crescent moon.

The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the C…

John Murphy, June 24, 1789

Etching of a figure with gear wading across shallow water under a dark, cloudy sky with birds flying overhead.

The Seascape Painter (Le Peintre de marine)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1860-98

Hand-coloured satirical print of a rowing boat pursued by a whale with caricatured faces, ships and burning towns behind.

British Tars Towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; the Broad-Bottom Leviathan trying Billy's Old Boat, and the Little…

James Gillray, October 1, 1807

Wood engraving of two figures by moonlit sea shore above a meadow scene with reclining figures and ducks, Harper's Weekly, 18

Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, September 19, 1874

Hand-colored caricature of a rider on a donkey fleeing a coast while a British lion sprays water from a cliff.

The Departure from the Coast, or the End of the Farce of Invasion

Thomas Rowlandson, October 1, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of a farmer pitchforking human-faced pigs off a cliff into rough sea waves.

The Pigs Possessed:-or-the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition

James Gillray, April 18, 1807

Engraving of sailors hauling in a billowing sail on a ship's yard during snowfall over a rough winter sea.

Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail off the Coast (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIII)

Winslow Homer, January 16, 1869

Hand-colored caricature of an old man clinging to Sinbad's shoulders while wading through a muddy political swamp.

The Old Man of the Sea, Sticking to the Shoulders of Sinbad the Sailor

Thomas Rowlandson, May 17, 1807

Hand-colored print of a woman in a green gown riding a shell boat pulled by three swans, with two cupids on a swan at left.

Venus a la Coquelle: or the Swan-sea Venus

James Gillray, March 28, 1809

Engraving of a girl lying on rocky shore beside a bearded man with a cane, with waves and wreckage offshore.

The Wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast Up by the Sea (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, April 26, 1873

Etching of a stormy Sussex coast with fishermen beside a windswept tree, a tossed sailboat, and a thatched cottage.

A View on the Coast of Sussex

Thomas Rowlandson, October 1, 1785

Etching of sailing ships battling choppy waves under a stormy sky, with cliffs on the left and gulls overhead.

L'Air, from The Elements

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Wood engraving of workers building a large wooden ship as children in straw hats play with a toy sailboat in the foreground.

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, October 11, 1873

Engraving of a seated woman with a caduceus beside a sailing ship on rough waves, with a stone pedestal at right.

Banknote vignette with female figure representing marine commerce

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1824-37

Pen and ink drawing of a rocky estuary with sailing ships, rowboats, and fortified hill towns under a cloudy sky.

A Rocky Estuary with Ships and Hill Towns

Hendrik van Cleve, 1585

Wood engraving of a crowded 19th-century seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, a man holding a lobster,

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)

Winslow Homer, August 27, 1859

Engraved U.S. Coast Survey chart of Smith's Island with soundings and compass rose, above a cliff view of Anacapa Island.

U.S. Coast Survey...Reconnaissance of Smith's or Blunt's Island, Washington / U.S. Coast Survey...Sketch of Anacapa I…

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-57

Engraved satirical street scene with crowds, a goat atop a pole, a monument inscription, and a devil figure.

An Emblematic Print on the South Sea

William Hogarth, late 18th century

Etching of a harbor with a large ship firing a cannon, small boats, grazing animals on the shore and a city skyline.

Harbor Scene

Ludolf Bakhuysen

Etching of a ship-shaped parade float in an oval arena with riders, crowds in stands, and an eagle emblem atop a rocky hill.

Parade float in the form of a ship, coat of arms of the Grand Duke of Modena at top

Stefano Della Bella, 1652

Hogarth etching of a crowded London street with a whirligig ride, gamblers, a monument column and a devil figure.

The South Sea Scheme

William Hogarth, 1722

Etching of a naval battle with sailing ships, smoke rising from ruined rocky battlements, and a distant town on the coast.

Naval battle with ruined ship and smoking battlements, from "Italian landscapes" (Diverse vedute designate in Fiorenz…

Jacques Callot, ca. 1618-35

Etching of a harbor with a colonnade, stone towers, sailing ships, and figures working boats on the shore.

Harbor with rising sun, figures in foreground, colonnade on left

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1634

Engraving with six cameo-style scenes of mythological figures, putti, dolphins, horses, a triton and a seated man on a sea cr

Six subjects after antique cameos: female figures tending to a seated male figure; putti and dolphins; female figure…

Battista Franco Veneziano

Etching of two tritons with fish tails wrestling sea creatures among waves, in a horizontal decorative frieze.

Two Tritons wrestling with other Sea Creatures, plate 13 from "Decorative friezes and foliage" (Ornamenti di fregi e…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645-50

Etching of a harbor with a large round tower at left, moored sailing ships, and figures carrying cargo on the shore.

Harbor with large tower at left, and figures in the foreground

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-40