
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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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"
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
Robert Willemsz de Baudous (d. 1659)
ca. 1603–30 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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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)
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
1647 · Etching; first state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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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"
James E. Buttersworth (d. 1894)
1853 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Clipper Ship "Great Republic"
Joseph B. Smith (d. 1876)
1855 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Whale Fishery: The Sperm Whale "in a Flurry"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
ca. 1860 · Hand-colored lithograph
In copyright
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Whale Fishery: Sperm Whale "In a Flurry"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1877–1894 · Hand-colored lithograph, with gum arabic
In copyright
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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)
In copyright
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[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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