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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,270 works

Watercolor of a broad river with sailboats, a distant city skyline, and a winding dirt road with a cart on a wooded hill.

New York from Weehawk

William Guy Wall, ca. 1820-23

Pencil sketch of a bay with a village, beached rowboats, wooded hills, and a sailboat at anchor on calm water.

Bay Scene with Sailboat at Anchor (from Sketchbook X)

William Trost Richards, 1885

Woodblock print of a lakeside harbor town with moored boats, pedestrians on the quay, and mountains across the water.

Otsu

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

Pen and wash drawing of an ornately decorated warship with carved stern and flying putti above, on a calm sea.

Design for the decoration of a Warship

Pierre Puget, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of a three-masted frigate under sail on rough sea, with a small boat and figure on rocks.

A Frigate at Sea

Pierre Puget, 17th century

Watercolor of a busy Venice canal with market boats, gondolas and the Rialto Bridge in the background.

The orange market, with the Rialto Bridge beyond, Venice

James Holland, 1867

Colorful fireworks burst over a suspension bridge at night, with steamboats and sailing ships on the river below.

The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and B…

Currier & Ives, 1883

Pen drawing in cutaway perspective of a Venetian palace with a gondola on the canal and figures in the courtyard.

Perspectival Cross-Section of a Venetian Palace

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1830-79

Red chalk drawing of a river scene with trees, houses, reeds and a rower in a small boat on calm water.

River Scene

Abraham Rutgers, 1645-99

Pen and wash drawing of two sailing ships moored at a Copenhagen quay with rowboats and waterfront buildings.

Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1830

Brown watercolor of a columned mansion above a fenced lawn, with a rowboat on the water and a carriage on the road.

Inner Bay, Staten Island, New York

Augustus Köllner, ca. 1872

Pen and wash drawing of people feasting and boating on a river, with swans and a leafy canopy under a cloudy sky.

July: Amusements on the Water, (Juillet : les Divertissements sur l’eau)

Claude Simpol, ca. 1700

Watercolor of brown-sailed boats on a tidal estuary at low tide, with wooden piers, a crane and a town under clouds.

A town on an estuary at low tide

Edward Duncan, 1868

Watercolor of feluccas sailing on the Nile at sunset, with palms on the bank and a city skyline in the distance.

View on the Nile near Cairo

Thomas Seddon, ca. 1855

Etching of a grotesque ornamental head with foliage and scrolls, rendered in fine parallel hatching on cream paper.

Head of a Child on the Bow of a Ship, from "Divers Masques"

François Chauveau, ca. 1635-45

Watercolor of a three-masted warship at anchor in calm harbor water beside a stone quay with figures and boats.

A Man O'War Lying at Anchor

Johannes Christiaan Schotel, early 19th century

Pen and gray wash ceiling design of an oval with putti, a wine press, and allegorical female figures in clouds.

Ceiling Design with the Mystical Wine Press

Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner, ca. 1750

Grey wash drawing of three fishermen hauling a net by a rowboat, with a harbor town and flying cherubs in an oval frame.

Emblem Drawing ("Hope sustains me")

Jacob Matham, early 17th century

Colour lithographic poster of a red-funnelled tug boat in San Francisco harbor, with anchor, seagulls and list of company dir

Ship Owners and Merchant Tug Boat Company

Emmanuel Wyttenbach, after 1882

Watercolor of Dumbarton Rock with a fortress on its cliffs, a sailboat and rowing boat on calm water.

Dumbarton Rock from the South

Joseph Farington, 1788

Pencil and wash drawing of a harbor with wooden pilings, rowboats with figures, and masted ships along a waterfront of low bu

The Coastline of Altona Seen from the East

Martinus Rørbye, 1834

Watercolor of a ruined tower and manor house across a calm lake, with figures in a rowing boat in the foreground.

Ruins at Oestergoedland

Pehr Nordqvist, ca. 1800

Pen and ink drawing of a battered ship with broken masts in stormy seas, with a small boat holding two figures in the foregro

A Storm at Sea with a Large Ship and a Small Boat with Two Figures

Carl August Ehrensvärd, 1765-1800

Hand-colored print of two paddle steamboats racing at night on the Mississippi, smoke and sparks rising under a moon.

Midnight Race on the Mississippi

Currier & Ives, 1875

Hand-colored print of a mounted general pointing as soldiers in boats cross an icy river, with a Conquer or Die flag.

Washington, Crossing the Delaware-On the Evening of Dec. 25th 1776, previous to the Battle of Trenton

Currier & Ives, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph of two paddle steamboats racing on the Mississippi past a wooded cliff, one labeled Eagle.

A Race on the Mississippi

Currier & Ives, 1870

Two paddle steamboats pass at night under a full moon on Long Island Sound, with a lighthouse on an island behind them.

Steamboats Passing at Midnight - On Long Island Sound

Currier & Ives, 1868-74

Pen and brown ink drawing of a ruined brick building with a staircase, a bare tree, and a boat on a river bank.

An Inhabited Ruin on the Bank of a River

Jan van de Velde II, ca. 1630-40

Pen and wash drawing of men and a boy on a shore beside a ship's sails and rigging.

Historical subject with men and a boy near a ship (recto). Anatomical study of a foot (verso)

William Hamilton, 1770-80

Watercolor of a burning ship at sea, with crew escaping in a boat and swimmers in rough water under a dark sky.

Fire at sea

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1820-46