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Etching of a harbor with a large warehouse, moored ships, rowing boat and dockworkers handling barrels on the quay.

Cityscape with naval warehouse and harbor with ships in Amsterdam

Cornelis Brouwer, 1780

Etching of sailing ships and small boats on choppy sea under a cloudy sky, by Gerrit Groenewegen, 1793.

Sailing ships on rough water

Gerrit Groenewegen, 1793

Loose sketch of billowing clouds over a dune, with a strip of sea on the horizon.

Dune top with the sea in the background

Jan Willem van Borselen, 1835

Etching of sailors straining on a rope to hoist a large billowing sail on a ship, with calm sea on the right.

Men pulling a rope to hoist the sail aboard a ship

Arthur John Trevor Briscoe, 1925

Etching of a three-masted ship and smaller vessels on calm water, with figures on the shore and cloudy sky above.

Two three-masters and other ships

Gerrit Groenewegen, 1793

Oil sketch of cumulus clouds over a dune with the sea at left, painted in loose blue and cream brushstrokes.

Dune top with the sea on the left

Jan Willem van Borselen, 1835

Etching of sailors clinging to a ship's bow and rigging in rough weather, with ropes and swirling sea.

Sailors holding onto the sail of a ship in heavy weather

Arthur John Trevor Briscoe, 1924

Etching of a three-masted American ship under sail with other vessels on choppy water and men on the shore.

American three-master and other ships

Gerrit Groenewegen, 1793

Grey wash drawing of two sailing boats on choppy water with a distant village and church spire on the left.

Ship under sail on the Meuse, in the distance the villages of Oud and Nieuw Beijerland

Nicolaas Wicart, 1758

Etching of a sailing boat and rowboat on a calm, reflective sea with distant sails on a misty horizon.

Boats on a misty and calm sea

Arthur John Trevor Briscoe, 1925

Engraved seascape with several sailing ships on choppy water and figures with barrels on a shore at left.

Seascape with various sailing ships

Gerrit Groenewegen, 1793

Engraving of a winged horse flying over a walled city, with a serpent-tailed sea monster in the foreground.

Flying winged horse and sea monster

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Etching of a seated man in a cap in a dim cabin, lit by a hanging lamp at upper right, with deep shadow on the left.

Ship captain in his cabin at evening

Arthur John Trevor Briscoe, 1925

Woodblock triptych of naval officers on a warship deck firing at a burning enemy ship in rough seas.

Kabayama, head of the naval command, attacks an enemy ship with the Seikyô Maru

Adachi Ginkô, 1894

Japanese woodblock triptych of a naval battle with warships, explosions, smoke and sailors struggling in turbulent sea waves.

Special edition of September 20: the fierce battle near an island in the ocean

Utagawa Kokunimasa, 1894

Grey wash drawing of workers and onlookers at a stone dry dock construction site with scaffolding and a wooden bridge.

Work on the sea lock and dry dock at Hellevoetsluis, ca. 1802

Balthazar Jooss, 1802

Watercolor of ruined houses and rubble along a Leiden canal after an explosion, with people on the quay and a church spire be

View of the ruins on the Rapenburg in Leiden after the explosion of the gunpowder ship on January 12, 1807

Jan Willem Pieneman, 1807

Engraving of nude sea nymphs surrounding an ornate ship as a helmeted warrior stands on deck, with sailing ships behind.

Aeneas' fleet surrounded by sea nymphs

Jacob Folkema, 1743

Hand-coloured 1634 nautical chart of the Flemish coast with ships, sandbanks, compass rose and town vignettes.

Map of the Flemish coast between Dunkirk and Gravelines

Pieter Codde van Enchuysen, 1634

Hand-colored 1658 sea chart of Ireland and surrounding coasts with compass roses, rhumb lines and sailing ships.

Sea chart of the sea west of Ireland

Hendrick Doncker, 1658

Hand-coloured 17th-century sea chart of the Bay of Biscay with compass roses, rhumb lines, ships in battle and decorative car

Sea chart of the Bay of Biscay

Frederik de Wit, 1675

Grey wash drawing of a sailing boat on a river beside a farmhouse and distant church tower under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with river and sailing ship

Johannes van Reijn, 1800

Line and wash print of a reclining nude figure on the shore, with a sailing ship and birds over blue-green sea.

Sleeping naked woman by the sea

Raoul Dufy, 1887

Engraved 1707 map of the northern French coast with sailing ships, towns, roads and sandbanks.

Map of the North French coast, 1707

Jacobus Harrewijn, 1707

Pencil drawing of a two-masted sailing ship moored at a quay, with rigging, sails and small figures on deck.

Sailing ship at a quay in Dordrecht

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1885

Watercolor of three sailing vessels on blue sea, two brown-sailed boats in front and a masted ship at right.

Three ships: two speronaras from Scilla and a tartane

Louis Ducros, 1778

Etching of three sailing ships on calm water under a cloudy sky, with birds and a distant windmill on the shore.

Sailing ships on calm sea

Paul Parmentier, 1864

Etching of moored peat barges with masts on calm water, a hazy city skyline with church spires in the distance.

Peat ships in the IJ

Willem Witsen, 1910

Etching of a large wooden ship tilted on its side at a dock, masts angled, with workers and onlookers on the quay.

The caulking of a mirror ship

Jakob Haig, 1897

Cartoon-style print of a man in a fur hat pouring a kettle on ice, with ships and steam on a canal behind him.

Man melts the ice on the North Sea Canal

Roeloffzen & Hübner, 1891