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Etching of a harbor with masted ships, warehouses and a wooden pier, with a rowboat crossing the water in the foreground.

Free Trade Wharf

James McNeill Whistler, 1877

Etching of sailing ships, masts and rowboats in a busy riverside harbor with wooden pilings and a hazy city beyond.

A Sketch from Billingsgate (From Billingsgate)

James McNeill Whistler, 1878

Etching of a harbor with masts and rigging above, two wooden pilings, a small boat, and two figures on the quay.

The Tiny Pool

James McNeill Whistler, [1879]

Etching of a calm river with a dark sailing boat, a jetty and a house on the right bank, and trees on the far shore.

Little Putney, No. 2 (The Little Putney)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Etching of a truss bridge over a river with moored boats, bare trees and riverbank buildings, under diagonal lines.

Fulham (Chelsea)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Etching of a busy Venetian waterfront with figures on the quay, moored sailing boats, a gondola and palazzi.

The Riva, No. 1 (The Riva)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a Venetian quay with strolling figures, stone steps to the water, moored boats and palazzo facades.

The Riva, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of moored sailing boats with tall masts along a waterfront, with small figures walking on a quay in the foreground.

Little Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler, 1885-86

Red chalk drawing of a sea battle with ornate galleys, spear-carrying soldiers and rowers, and sails in the distance.

The Sea Battle in the Gulf of Morbihan

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Etching of a row of steamboats moored on a river, with a small bridge at the right edge and streaked sky above.

Steamboat Fleet

James McNeill Whistler, [1875]

Grey wash drawing of figures on a wooden bridge by willows, a rowboat on a canal, and a farmhouse under cloudy sky.

View of a Bridge in the Dutch Countryside with Figures

Nicolaas Wicart, mid-18th-early 19th century

Etching of a river at dawn with sailboats, a wooden pier, factory chimneys and a church spire under a cloudy sky.

Early Morning, Battersea (Battersea Dawn) (Cadogan Pier)

James McNeill Whistler, 1861

Etching of a woman in a long dress and bonnet at a ship railing, looking out to sea with gulls and rigging beside her.

The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, June 21, 1862

Etching of a busy Thames wharf with moored boats and sailing ships, and a seated man in the foreground.

The Old Thames: "Black Lion Wharf," an Etching

Carl Hentschel, 1895

Black-and-white print of a woman in a long dress leaning on a ship railing, looking toward the sea and distant shore.

The Major's Daughter (for "Once a Week," June 21, 1862)

James McNeill Whistler, 1862

Engraved illustration of a woman in a long dress leaning on a ship's rail beside rigging, with open sea behind her, on a prin

The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week," June 21, 1862)

James McNeill Whistler, June 21, 1862

Etching of a thatched cottage and trees beside a canal, with a distant church spire and a sailboat on the water.

Cottage beside a Canal with a View of Ouderkerk

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1641

Etching of a sailing ship with a female figure at the mast, a laurel-wreathed man on shore, and classical buildings.

The Ship of Fortune

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1633

Engraving of galleys in close naval combat, soldiers crowding the decks amid smoke, with fleets and flags in the distance.

Naval Combat

Jacques Callot, early 17th century

Watercolor of a hilltop castle across tidal sands, with two walking figures and boats under a cloudy sky.

Harlech Castle across the Traeth Mawr

John Varley, 1800-42

Black and white print of a Brooklyn waterfront with a city skyline, tugboat, sheds, railway tracks and telegraph poles.

Columbia Heights, Brooklyn

Minnetta Good, 1939

Etching of a standing sailor in a cloak conversing with a seated turbaned man beside a boat on a shore.

A standing sailor talking to a seated Levantine

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1660

Etching of two sailors in the foreground with workers building a wooden ship on a scaffold in a circular frame.

A seated white sailor and a standing black sailor, people building a ship in the background, a circular composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1660

Grey wash drawing of a canal with classical palazzo buildings, statues, and small boats with figures in the foreground.

Canal Scene with a Palazzo

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, mid-18th century

Engraving of a bearded man in a spiked barrel before a crowd, with ships in a harbor and a walled city behind.

Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 18th century

Etching of a seated woman talking to a standing woman carrying two children, with a church and boats in the background.

A woman seated to left holding a child, facing right in profile, conversing with a standing woman in center, carrying…

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Sepia drawing of a semi-nude woman and a winged cupid on a crescent moon boat drifting through clouds.

La Folie l'égare (Folly Adrift)

Jean-Baptiste Mallet, ca. 1808

Etching of a naval battle with smoke rising from a central ship, surrounded by masted vessels and a small rowboat on the sea.

Naval combat, a ship at center, seen from behind, firing at four enemy ships, another ship entering from the right, a…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a naval battle with a crowded rowboat, drowning figures in the sea, and a burning ship sinking in smoke.

Naval battle, a rowboat filled with people fighting with muskets to left, people drowning in the sea in the center an…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a seated allegorical woman gripping a rope beside an anchor, with sailing ships and birds on blue paper.

Hope

Pierre Brébiette, 17th century