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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Etching of a Dutch states yacht and an escort vessel on choppy water, with flags and small boats around them.

A States Yacht and an "Uijtlegger" or Escort Vessel for the Waddenzee

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two small sailing boats on choppy sea, with larger ships and flags on the horizon under a cloudy sky.

Two "Steiger Schuiten"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two Dutch sailing barges on calm water with crew, a distant town, and cloudy sky beyond.

A "Watership" Carrying Water for the Salt Works and Another One Carrying Water for the Breweries

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a Dutch three-masted ship with flags sailing rough seas past rocky cliffs, with smaller boats nearby.

The "Zwarte Beer" (Black Bear), a Dutch Greenlander

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a crowded Amsterdam-style harbor with sailing ships, rowboats, a wooden bridge and a tall tower at left.

The Gelderse Quay and the Schreiers Tower, Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a sailing vessel with billowing sails in rough sea, with a smaller boat and rowboat under a cloudy sky.

A Samoureus

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a Friesland ketch and a Gelderse ketch on calm water, with sails, rigging and a rowboat below.

A Friesland Ketch and a Gelderse Ketch

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two Dutch peat barges with sails on calm water, with figures working aboard and a distant shoreline.

A "Friesland" Peatpot, and a "Dijnopschuit" or "Veense" Peatpot

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of Amsterdam's Rokin canal with moored sailing ships, gabled houses, an arched bridge and the Bourse tower.

The Rokin and the Bourse in Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two lighter boats on calm water, one with barrel cargo and one with a tall mast, under a cloudy sky.

An Amsterdam Lighter and a Wieringer Lighter

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a loaded flat barge and a sailing boat on calm water, with distant sails and clouds under a broad sky.

A "Vlotschuit" and a "Schietschuit"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of night sailing barges on calm water with a distant town and tower under a cloudy sky.

The Night-Boats to The Hague, Delft, and Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of men hauling a sailing boat along a canal past gabled houses, a waterwheel and trees.

The "Overtoom" (Portage) at Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a canal with a passenger barge, a horse on the towpath, figures, trees, and a windmill on the far bank.

The Haarlem "Trekschuiten"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of skaters and a horse sledge on a frozen canal before large houses, a windmill at left and a sailing boat.

Winter Scene in the Blockhouses in Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of three sailing boats tossed by rough waves under a cloudy sky, with a caption reading Schol-Schuÿties, of Pinckies.

"Scholshuiten" or "Pinken"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a waterwheel dredger with workers and small boats on a waterway, with sailing ships and wooden pilings in the dist

A Dredger and Mudhoppers

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a harbor with a raft, huts, workers, a moored sailing boat, and a ship under construction in the distance.

A Raft and a "Onderlegger"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two moored flat-bottomed boats, one with figures and a smoking chimney, under a cloudy sky.

Two "Overlanders" or Houseboats

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Open book pages with two woodcuts of skeletal Death confronting a nobleman and an old man, with Latin verses below.

Imagines Mortis (Images of Death)

Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1526; published 1545

Neoclassical wall design with Venus and Adonis in the centre, flanked by two figures and classical ornament in blue and pink

Elaborate Wall Decorations with Venus and Adonis

Tommaso Bigatti, c. 1800

Neoclassical wall design with a central panel of a draped woman and cherub in a landscape, flanked by oval medallions of drap

Elaborate Wall Decoration with Endymion and Hebe

Tommaso Bigatti, c. 1800

Watercolor of ruined brick arches framing a beached sailing ship and figures on a shore, with hills and sea beyond.

View through the Temple of Venus, Baia

Giacinto Gigante, 1860s?

Engraving of three ships between two Non Plus Ultra columns on rocky cliffs, with a decorative cartouche and inscription belo

The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1729: The Ships of the Ostend Company and Trieste Company at the Pillars of He…

after Gabriele Valvassori Filippo Vasconi, 1729

Pen and brown wash drawing of Juno seated on clouds with a small winged child beside her, within a ruled border.

Juno Seated on the Clouds

Luigi Brenta, early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a group of draped figures gathered at the lower right.

Diana and Her Companions in a Landscape

Luigi Brenta, early 19th century

Lithograph of Redcliffe Church in Bristol, showing its tall Gothic tower and flying buttresses with carts and pedestrians in

Scenery of Bristol

Francis Danby, Samuel Jackson, and James Johnson, 1823

Pencil sketch on paper showing several studies of figures, including a man in a wide-brimmed hat and a bearded man in a cap.

Preliminary Sketch for "The Passage" (La Traversee)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Pencil sketch of a horse pulling a cab with a driver seated at the back, with loose rain-like hatching.

The Cab

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Pen and ink sketch of several putti grouped among clouds, drawn in loose contour lines on pale paper.

Putti in the Clouds

after Luca Cambiaso Italian 17th/18th century, 17th century