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Dark sailboat on turbulent golden sea under a glowing moon and clouds, painted in muted ochre and green tones.

The Toilers of the Sea

Albert Pinkham Ryder, ca. 1880-85

Round miniature of a harbor at sunset with a sailing ship, rowboats, cliffs, and an arched gateway on the shore.

View of a Harbor

Painting of a brick country house with a tower beside a river, with a rowboat, sailboats and a stormy sky.

Country House near the Water

Jan van Goyen, 1646

Dark nocturnal seascape with a glowing moon behind clouds, a silhouetted sailing ship, and craquelured paint surface.

Moonlight Marine

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870-90

Three hanging scrolls of ink landscapes with pines, mountains, and a central panel of a man with a staff and a seated woman i

Chinese Woman in a Boat and Figures in Landscapes

Kano Kōi, early 17th century

Woodblock print of a bay with sailboats, porters on a road, and a thatched teahouse by the shore under a pink sky.

Kanagawa

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped kimono seated on a boat, with a river, bridge, and small boats behind her.

Water Scene

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1840

Japanese print of an ornate table clock beside a hanging scroll showing a treasure boat on patterned cloth.

Table-Clock and Kakemono of a Treasure Boat

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a bearded elder on a decorated treasure ship with patterned sails and seated attendants.

Boat of Good Fortune

Pen and brown ink drawing of sailing and rowing boats on water beside a village of gabled houses and trees.

Boats and Houses

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 16th century

Brown wash drawing of a harbor with masted ships, rowboats with figures, and a ruined tower on the shore.

View of Civitavecchia

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Circular engraving of a sorceress offering a cup to a man beside a ship, with serpents and ornate architecture around them.

Circe Giving a Drink to Ulysses's Companions

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Etching of several men sleeping in a dim boat cabin, with lamps overhead and reeds visible through an opening.

Sleeping on Board the Boat

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Brown ink and wash drawing of a harbor with masted ships, a rowboat with one figure, and towers on the shore.

A Port Scene

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Watercolor landscape with a blue mountain, a hillside village, a leaning tree, and fishermen hauling a boat on rocks.

Landscape with Fishermen

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Pen and watercolor drawing of fishermen and boats on a seashore, with a small cottage and sailing ships in the distance.

Figures by the Seashore

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of a rocky coast with a seated figure, an eagle, sailboats, and a distant town.

The Death of Aeschylus

Tobias Verhaecht, 1576-before 1606

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

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

Circular engraving of Circe raising a cup beside Ulysses' companions in a boat, with monstrous figures near her.

Circe drinking from a cup with the companions of Ulysses in a boat at left, a circular composition

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

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

Circular etching of a stormy sea with sailing ships, rough waves, dark clouds, and figures on a shore at lower left.

Tempest in a roundel composition, at left waves toss a small ship occupied by seven figures, ships and dark clouds be…

Matthijs van Plattenberg, ca. 1625-60

Etched river landscape with a rowboat, village houses, trees, reeds and ducks on the water.

River landscape after a painting in the cabinet of Mr. Le Brun

Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod

Etching of two seated men in robes on a rocky shore, with sailing ships and a rowboat on the sea beside them.

Two Turkish Merchants in a Port, from "Landscapes and seaports" (Paysages et ports de mer, dans des ronds)

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

Trade card with a sunfish in a framed panel above a paddler in a canoe on calm water, printed in 1889.

Sunfish, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889

Etching of a standing sailor talking to a seated turbaned man, with sailors in a rowboat and a tower in the background.

Standing sailor in center talking to a seated Levantine man to left, seen in profile, other sailors with a boat to le…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1658-63

Etching of two sailors in the foreground with workers repairing a ship on scaffolding in the background.

A Black sailor standing to left, in profile to the right, a White sailor seated in center with legs outstretched, a s…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1658-63

Chromolithograph trade card of a brown toadfish above a striped-capped canoeist paddling on green water.

Toadfish, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889

Red Cock-of-the-Rock bird on mossy rock before blue mountains, with cigarette advertising text and tropical side panels.

Cock-of-the-Rock, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889

Chromolithograph card of a tri-colored cockatoo on a branch beside palm trees, with sailboats on water in the right panel.

Tri-colored Cockatoo, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889