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Results for "Four Sailing Ships on Choppy Seas"12 records

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Armed Four-Master Putting Out to Sea from The Sailing Vessels by Frans Huys, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Armed Four-Master Putting Out to Sea from The Sailing Vessels

Frans Huys (d. 1562)

ca. 1555–56 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Four-master and Two Three-masters Anchored near a Fortified Island, from "The Sailing Vessels" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four-master and Two Three-masters Anchored near a Fortified Island, from "The Sailing Vessels"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d. 1569)

1561–65 · Engraving and etching; first state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Four Sailing Ships on Choppy Seas by Robert Willemsz de Baudous, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four Sailing Ships on Choppy Seas

Robert Willemsz de Baudous (d. 1659)

ca. 1603–30 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Boÿers (Dutch Cargo Ship) by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Boÿers (Dutch Cargo Ship)

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1647 · Etching; first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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Boÿers (Dutch Cargo Ship) by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Boÿers (Dutch Cargo Ship)

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1647 · Etching; first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Ship at Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Ship at Sea

Ludolf Backhuysen (d. 1708)

1650–1708 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Clipper Ship "Great Republic" by James E. Buttersworth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clipper Ship "Great Republic"

James E. Buttersworth (d. 1894)

1853 · Hand-colored lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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Clipper Ship "Great Republic" by Joseph B. Smith, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clipper Ship "Great Republic"

Joseph B. Smith (d. 1876)

1855 · Hand-colored lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Whale Fishery: The Sperm Whale "in a Flurry"

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

ca. 1860 · Hand-colored lithograph

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Whale Fishery: Sperm Whale "In a Flurry"

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1877–1894 · Hand-colored lithograph, with gum arabic

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Mouth of the Thames, after Turner, No. 1

Sir Francis Seymour Haden (d. 1910)

1896 · Etching with drypoint; first (final) state (Harrington); second state of two (Schneiderman)

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

[Four 35mm Film Frames: South Seas: Two Cressida Passengers on Deck, From Above, and Isabelle Jennings on Cressida Prow]

Walker Evans (d. 1975)

1932 · Film negative

In copyright

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