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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,292 works

Grey wash drawing of a mythological abduction scene with a ship, rowers, a standing couple and a chariot in clouds.

The Rape of Helena; verso: Study of a Kneeling Nude Male Figure

Daniel Seiter, late 17th-18th century

Etching of a river scene with a moored barge, overhanging trees, a small rowboat, and riverside houses in the distance.

The Dyer's Boat (Bas-Meudon)

Félix Bracquemond, ca. 1868

Etching of a stormy sea shore with a fishing net, crabs, seaweed and shells in the foreground and sailboats in the distance.

La Mer

Félix Bracquemond, 1850-1914

Etching of flat-bottomed boats moored on a calm river bank beside tall trees, with open fields in the distance.

Bachots au bords de la Seine

Félix Bracquemond, 1858

Etching of fireworks bursting over Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome, with crowds on the riverbank and boats on the Tiber.

Fireworks in Rome Over Castel Sant' Angelo

Adriaen Manglard, 18th century

Etching of fishermen hauling a heavy net of fish from a rocking boat under a cloudy sky over a choppy sea.

Miraculous Draught of Fish

Pieter Soutman, 1595-1657

Engraving of the ship Argo passing between rocky cliffs, a lyre player at the stern and a rower beside him, amid waves.

Symplegades

Cornelis Bloemaert, 17th century

Woodcut of seven angels with trumpets above an enthroned God, with a dragon, fire and ships in the scene below.

The Seven Angels with the Trumpets, from "The Apocalypse", Latin Edition

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Pen and wash drawing of a windmill, workers with wheelbarrows, a rowboat on a canal, and a church tower under a grey sky.

February

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of a church tower by a river with cows, a boat ferrying men and a cow, and a windmill.

April

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Watercolor of haymakers on a river with a haystack raft, windmill, sailing boats and a distant church tower.

The Twelve Months

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of figures harvesting fruit beside a river, with a rowboat and sailing boat nearby.

September

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Engraving of winged Fortune above clouds, with nobles on the left and a crippled soldier and beggars on the right, battle and

Fortune Favoring France

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635-37

Etching of a large caravel with dark billowing sails and rigging on a choppy sea under swirling clouds.

La Caravelle (The Caravel)

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1844

Woodcut of a fool in a cap leading a cow past a ship and mountains, with Latin text above and below.

Illustration from Sebastian Brandt's "Navis Stultifera", Basle, Bergmann van Olpe, 1497

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a canal with a large windmill, two distant windmills, and a rowing boat under a cloudy sky.

View of a Canal with Three Windmills

Jan Hulswit, late 18th-early 19th century

Engraved view of warships attacking a harbor town, with smoke rising from burning buildings and troops along the shore.

South West View of the City of New York in North America

Pierre Charles Canot, late 18th century

Engraving of Pilgrims landing from a rowboat through surf onto a rocky shore under a dark stormy sky, with a crowd on the bea

The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, 1620

Joseph Andrews, 1869

Engraving of British troops landing from boats and scaling a wooded cliff toward Quebec, with ships on the river.

A View of the Taking of Quebec, September 13, 1759

Bowles & Carver, [ca. 1760] reissued ca. 1793

Engraving of warships and rowing boats landing troops on a shore with hills and a fort, sea in foreground.

Disembarkation of the Troops at Gravesend Bay under the Command of General Collier, R.N. (August 22, 1776)

John Baily, November 30, 1814

Engraved view of Boston harbor with warships and smoke rising over burning Charles Town and troops on the hill.

View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town, June 17, 1775

John Lodge, 1781-83

Etching of a mournful procession past harbor warehouses and ships, with skulls and bales labeled Stamps from America.

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame - Stamp

Benjamin Wilson, March 18, 1766

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

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

Etching of a canal with a large boat, a bridge, a leaning tree and a distant town with a church tower under open sky.

Canal with a Large Boat and a Bridge

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Etching of a rural landscape with thatched cottages, trees, a canal, and a milkman with pails on a road.

View of the Diemerdijk with a Milkman and Cottages ('Het Melkboertje')

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1650

Engraving of sailors and women on a ship deck, one man with a spyglass scanning the sea toward a distant ship.

The Approach of the British Pirate "Alabama" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)

Winslow Homer, April 25, 1863

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

Engraving of two girls in bathing costumes walking on a beach, with bathers in the sea and a sailboat behind them.

The Bathers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, August 2, 1873

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