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Etching of a seaport with a village on white cliffs, sailing ships with flags, and rowing boats in the foreground.

Seaport with Village on a Cliff

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a bay with large sailing ships, workers loading barrels on a shore, and rocky cliffs on the left.

Bay with Sailing Vessels

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of Amsterdam's Appelmarckt canal with moored sailing ships, a church tower, and figures on the quay.

De Appelmarckt (The Apple Market), from Views in Amsterdam, plate 6

Reinier Nooms, ca. 1659/62 (?)

De Salemander een Oostindis Vaerder

Reinier Nooms, mid-17th century

Etching of a riverside palace with a round tower, a wooden bridge, and rowing boats with figures on the river.

View of the Louvre and the Tuileries, from Views of Paris and Neighborhoods, plate 1

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etched river landscape with moored boats, rowing figures, a tower, houses and dense trees along the bank.

The River Seine at the Bend of the Mall

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a fortified city gate beside a river, with boats, horsemen, figures on the quay and a bridge in the distance.

The Entrance Gate of St. Bernard in Paris

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a naval battle with sailing ships in the foreground, gunsmoke rising over the fleet, and choppy sea below.

Naval Battle Scene

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Engraved trade card of Thomas Ash's chair shop in New York, with a man and horse cart beside a sailing ship at the wharf.

Fancy & Windsor Chair Manufactory, Wholesale & Retail, Thomas Ash, No. 33 John Street, New York

Asher Brown Durand, 1817

Hand-colored print of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island with ships in New York Harbor and a city skyline.

The Great Bartholdi Statue - Liberty Enlightening the World

Currier & Ives, 1885

Hand-colored lithograph of the pilot boat Wm. J. Romer sailing on choppy green water with an American flag.

Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic - Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for Engl…

Nathaniel Currier, 1846

U. S. Ship North Carolina, 102 Guns

Nathaniel Currier, 1843

The Chinese Junk "Keying" [commanded by] Captain Kellett, as she appeared in New York Harbour, July 13th, 1847 --- 21…

Nathaniel Currier, 1847

Hand-colored print of a side-wheel New York ferry boat with a black smokestack, blue pilothouses, and passengers on deck.

New York Ferry Boat

Currier & Ives, ca. 1860-65

Etching of a sailboat on a river at sunset, with a city skyline and masted ships in the background.

Sunset on the East River

Henry Farrer, 1879

Etching of sailing boats and rowboats moored at a harbor shore at dusk, with a wooden building and distant ships.

Evening, New York Harbor

Henry Farrer, 1884

Sepia bird's-eye lithograph of New York and Brooklyn with ships crowding the harbor and dense city blocks along the waterfron

Bird's Eye View of New York and Brooklyn

John Bachmann, 1851

Lithograph of a sailing ship and rowboat on a lake, with a rocky, tree-lined shore on the right and hills in the distance.

Entrée du Niagara dans le Lac Ontario

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1824

Etching of a merchant ship heeled over for hull repairs, with small boats and workers beside it on a calm sea.

A Merchant Man Careened for Caulking the Hull

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a large sailing vessel with billowing sails, a rowing boat with passengers, and smaller boats on calm water.

Large Sailing Vessel and Rowing Boat

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a naval battle with warships in gunsmoke and a foundering ship on the left, sailors in the water.

Naval Battle with an English Ship Foundering on the Left, from Naval Battles (Nieuwe Scheeps Batalien), plate 5

Reinier Nooms, 1652-54

Etching of sailing boats on a waterway with fishermen working on the shore under a cloudy sky.

View of Inland Waterway with Fisherman

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of an Amsterdam canal scene with moored sailing boats, a wooden quay, turreted buildings and trees.

S. Anthonis Marckt met de Waegh

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a village on an estuary with trees, figures, a rowing boat on the shore, and a distant sailboat under a clo

Village on an estuary, with a rowing boat on the shore

Pieter de Molijn, 17th century

Etching of galleys fighting around rocky islands, with a coat of arms and compass rose in the margins.

Capture of Two Galleys at Byserta

Stefano Della Bella, 1628

Sepia drawing of a farewell: a man in a boat, a grieving man, embracing women and children, with a domed interior scene above

"The Farewell"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Engraved coastal scene with moored sailing boats, a windmill on a hill, village houses, and figures working on the shore.

Coast Scene with a Windmill

Aegidius Sadeler, n.d.

Etching of a thatched farmhouse among tall trees beside a river, with a rowing boat and distant town on the water.

A Farmhouse Beside the Water

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Oval fan with an engraved rebus of cupids, an eagle, ships and scales, edged in coloured silk fringe on a wooden handle.

A fan with a rebus on Love on one side Fortune on the other

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1639

Sepia etching of Basle with a wooden bridge over a river, twin cathedral spires, rowing boats and a sunburst sky.

Basle, part I, plate 5 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, June 11, 1807