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Results for "Landscape with Tower at Seashore"12 records

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Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Unrecorded maker

last decade of the 1st century BCE · Fresco

Cleared · Public Domain

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Landscape with Tower at Seashore by Filippo Napoletano, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape with Tower at Seashore

Filippo Napoletano (d. 1629)

1600–1614(?) · Drawing, pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite; framing lines in graphite

Cleared · CC0

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The Tower of Babel or Birs Nimrud Restored by William Simpson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Tower of Babel or Birs Nimrud Restored

William Simpson (d. 1899)

ca. 1885 · Watercolor over graphite

Cleared · Public Domain

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An Inhabited Ruin on the Bank of a River by Jan van de Velde II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Inhabited Ruin on the Bank of a River

Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)

ca. 1630–40 · Pen and two shades of brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, possibly by the artist

Cleared · Public Domain

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Square Tower Used as Inn near a River by Jan van de Velde II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Square Tower Used as Inn near a River

Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)

ca. 1641 · Engraving and etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pevensey Castle, from "English Views" by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pevensey Castle, from "English Views"

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1652–77 · Etching, third state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Writing Box with Cranes, Pines, Plum Blossoms, and Characters by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Writing Box with Cranes, Pines, Plum Blossoms, and Characters

Unrecorded maker

18th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and silver inlay on nashiji ground

Cleared · Public Domain

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Morpeth North, part IV, plate 21 from "Liber Studiorum" by Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Morpeth North, part IV, plate 21 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner (d. 1851)

March 29, 1809 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (Finberg)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Plate 10, from "World in Miniature" by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 10, from "World in Miniature"

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

1816 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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A  Forest Edge with Peasants and a Village in the Background; verso: Landscape Sketch by Pieter Barbiers II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Forest Edge with Peasants and a Village in the Background; verso: Landscape Sketch

Pieter Barbiers II (d. 1842)

1761–1842 · Black chalk, with brush and brownish-gray wash; framing line in black chalk, by the artist

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Ruins of the Abbey by Frances Flora Bond Palmer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Ruins of the Abbey

Frances Flora Bond Palmer (d. 1876)

1856 · Hand-colored lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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Landscape with a Distant Boats and a Tower, Two Men Talking at Right

James Basire, the elder (d. 1802)

1764 · Etching, printed in brown ink

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