Classic Sailing Ships

Artistic illustrations of historic sailing vessels, showcasing various designs including Chinese boats and 19th-century merchant ships.

Sailboats Of The 14th Century by Rafael Monleon, (1843-1900), Spain, Madrid, Museo Naval

Thomas Chambers New York Harbor with Pilot Boat George Washington‘ New York Harbor with Pilot Boat George Washington label QS:Len,New York Harbor with Pilot Boat George Washington

EMBARCACIONES DE VELA CHINAS - S XIX - DETALLE ILUSTRACION DE LAMINA (CONJUNTO Nº 49839) - ACUARELA. Author: RAFAEL MONLEON. Location: MUSEO NAVAL / MINISTERIO DE MARINA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Ships at a headland, Willem Witsen, 1870 - 1923 drawing paper. pencil brush river. sailing-ship, sailing-boat

The English Merchant Ship 'Malabar' Signed and dated in red paint, lower left: "W. Clark | 1836", William Clark, 1803-1883, British

Sailboats Of The 14th Century by Rafael Monleon, (1843-1900), Spain, Madrid, Museo Naval

A Frigate Awaiting a Pilot, William Anderson, 1757-1837, British, 1797, Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (20 x 29.8 cm), boats, coast, frigate, frigates, marine (soldier), marine art, pilot, ships

The 'Swan' and 'Isabella' Whaling in the Arctic. John Ward of Hull (1789-1849). Oil on canvas. 35.7 x 54cm.

U.S.S. Columbia, Lithograph, 19th Century

Ships of the Line off Dover, Samuel Atkins, active 1787-1808, British, active in the East Indies (1796-1804), undated, Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (11.7 × 16.8 cm), boats, clouds, coast, Grand Tour, marine art, men, sails, ships, Dover, England, Europe, Kent, United Kingdom

Entrance to Calais Harbour. Date/Period: Ca. 1829. Painting. Watercolor. Height: 187 mm (7.36 in); Width: 279 mm (10.98 in). Author: David Cox.

An Indiaman and a Two Decker Hove to, Said to be Thomas Dumar, Esq. in H.M. Ship 'Portland' Delivering the Leeward Island Convoy, in 1776. Date/Period: 1796. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 106.7 cm (42 in); Width: 167.6 cm (65.9 in). Author: THOMAS LUNY.

YATE VICTORIA Y ALBERTO NAVEGANDO EN COWES-ISLA DE WRIGHT - GRABADO 1861 POR J.HARRIS. Author: THOMAS SEWELL ROBINS (1814-1880). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

A Merchantman Becalmed Offshore, David Cox Jr., 1809-1885, British, undated, Watercolor, with pen, in gray ink, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/16 inches (11.7 × 17.9 cm), boats, marine art, sea, ships, shore (landform), water

Harbor at Sunset. View in a harbor at sunset. In the middle a warship, on the right, a ship is cooled or ridged. In the foreground a fishing vessel and a few figures in a rowing boat.

USS KEARSARGE, by Clary Ray, American painting, watercolor, c. 1890s. USS Kearsarge was the sloop-of-war that sunk the Confederate raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France in 1864, during the US Civil War (BSLOC_2018_8_56)

Charles Brooking, 1723-1759, British, An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze, ca. 1750. Oil on canvas.

The Man-of-War Brielle on the River Maas off Rotterdam, Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1689 painting The frigate 'Brielle' on the Maas for Rotterdam. On the right a yacht of the Rotterdam room of the East India Company. Furthermore, different sloops and fishing boats. In the distance a face on the new head. canvas. oil paint (paint) sailing-ship, sailing-boat. ship in the roads, roadstead. prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage) Rotterdam. Mesh

Two ships on the mouth of the Thames, Anonymous, 1800 - 1899 print paper ships (in general) Thames

The French Ship-of-the-Line Commerce de Paris, Roux, Ange Joseph Antoine, 1804.

Rough Weather, Dutch and English Fishing Boats, 1805 Samuel Owen, Boat, Watercolour, Cloud, Sea, Seascape, Waves, Weather, Wind, Weather, Storm, Marine art, Ship, Nautical, Maritime

John Ward of Hull, The Northern Whale Fishery The Swan and Isabella, c 1840 The Northern Whale Fishery: The Swan and Isabella

River face, Gerrit Lamberts, 1786 - 1850 drawing paper. ink. watercolor (paint) brush / pen sailing-ship, sailing-boat

A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland, Thomas Luny, 1759-1837, British, 1780, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm), boat, breeze, cliffs, clouds, cutter (sailing vessel), flags, full-rigged ships, lighthouse, longboats, marine art, packet (watercraft), rowboat, sailboat, sea, seamen, ship's boat, ships, shore (landform), sloop (sailing vessel), waves (natural events), waves (natural events), England, Kent, South Foreland, United Kingdom

Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor, Peter Monamy, 1681-1749, British, between 1710 and 1730, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 30 1/8 x 45 1/2 inches (76.5 x 115.6 cm), anchor (watercraft equipment), birds, boys, clouds, figures, flags, full-rigged ships, guns, hats, inlet, marine art, men, men-of-war, pennants, rowboats, sails, sea, ships, sky, sloops (sailing vessels), yacht

Robert Salmon, Boston Harbor, 1843 Boston Harbor

The three caravels of Christopher Columbus

'A Fishing Lugger off the Coast of Kent', c1854, (1938). Artist: Archibald Webb.

Willemstad, Curaí§ao. The port in the 1860's. After a contemporary engraving.

EL YATE 'SAPPHO'DE NUEVA YORK DE 210 TONS LITOGRAFIA. Location: MUSEO DEL MARE. Genova. ITALIA.

The Four-Masted Scooner, Senator Sullivan, Stubbs, William Pierce, 1890.

The Ship "Favorite" Maneuvering Off Greenock. Dated: 1819. Dimensions: overall: 76.2 x 128.3 cm (30 x 50 1/2 in.) framed: 96.5 x 149.9 x 9.8 cm (38 x 59 x 3 7/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: ROBERT SALMON.

Rotterdam Ferry-Boat Oil on canvas; 1833 Joseph Mallord William Turner; British; 1775 - 1851

A Merchant Ship in Two Positions by an Estuary off the South West Coast. Thomas Luny (1759-1837). Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 49.5cm.

Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor Signed, lower right: "P. Monamy : pinx :", Peter Monamy, 1681-1749, British

44-gun frigate 'Aurora' by Borispolets, Platon Timofeyevich (1805-1880) State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg 1844 Russia Oil on canvas Painting Genre,History

The Dutch clipper Metalen Kruis under full sail. After a work by Charles Binger published in 1856.

A Chinese boat. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.

Ships on a Stormy Sea, Samuel Owen, 1768-1857, British, 1836, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (14 × 28.6 cm), boats, clouds, longboat, marine art, Masts and rigging, sailors, sails, sea, ships, storm, waves (natural events), wind

An Arrival Arthur Briscoe (Birkenhead, England, 1873 - 1943) 1932 Port

. English: 'A Liverpool Slave Ship,' by William Jackson. Oil on canvas, 127 cm x 102 cm. Courtesy of the National Museums Liverpool. 18 January 2012, 02:55:48. William Jackson 20 A Liverpool Slave Ship by William Jackson

Galleon (16th c.). Engraving.

Orandasen -translation : Dutch ship. Japanese print shows two views, side and front of a Dutch ship. between 1850 and 1900.

William Anderson, 1757-1837, British, Dutch Sailing Vessels, 1814. Oil on panel.

The National Frigate Rotterdam on the Meuse near Rotterdam Still Water, The Netherlands, Nicolaas Baur, 1807

Clipper Ship 'Nightingale'.

Sailing Barges and Boats in a Choppy Sea, George Chambers, 1803-1840, British, undated, Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 6 7/8 × 11 1/8 inches (17.5 × 28.3 cm), barges, canal boats, boats, marine art, sails, sea, waves (natural events), windmill

A Wherry Taking Passengers out to Two Anchored Packets. Date/Period: 1825. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 267 mm (10.51 in); Width: 333 mm (13.11 in). Author: William Anderson.

View of Emden from the sea, 1845, Germany 19th Century.

East Indiaman was a general name for any ship operating under charter or license to any of the East India Companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. Thus, one can speak of a Danish, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, or Swedish East Indiaman. In Britain, the Honourable East India Company itself did not generally own merchant ships, but held a monopoly granted to it by Queen Elizabeth I of England for all English trade between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, which was progressively restricted during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. English (later British) East Indiamen usually ran between England, the Cape of Good Hope and India, where their primary destinations were the ports of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. The Indiamen often continued on to China before returning to England via the Cape of Good Hope and Saint Helena.

Departure of twelve Dutch merchant ships from the port of Portsmouth, 1833 (plate 3); This set of three plates represented the departure from the port of Portsmouth on the 2.D JUNY 1833 of 12 Nederlandsche Koopvelden Scheepen out of Embargo fired (...) / This Series of Three Prints Representing The Departure from Portsmouth (...) . The departure of the twelve Dutch merchant ships from the port of Portsmouth, after the lifting of the embargo, June 2, 1833. The British embargo was brought about November 1832 to move the Dutch people to transfer the Antwerp Citadel to Belgium. All Dutch ships were placed on the chain in British ports. Third plate in a series of three. Central to the ship Prince of Orange fires a shot. At the bottom of the margin the names of the ships. King Willem I coat of arms at the bottom of the Dutch and English title and assignment.

FRAGATA NUMANCIA 1863. Location: MUSEO NAVAL / MINISTERIO DE MARINA, MADRID, SPAIN.

English Ships Under Sail in a Very Light Breeze, Charles Brooking, 1723-1759, British, ca. 1752, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm), boats, flags, marine art, merchants, sailboats, sea, seascape, ships, ships of the line, ships, full-rigged, sloops (sailing vessels), warships

Edward Duncan, 1803-1882, British, Sailing Barge at Sea, undated. Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Ships lying off Flushing by Clays, Paul Jean (1819-1900)/ National Gallery, London/ 1869/ Belgium/ Oil on wood/ Realism/ 59,9x86,8/ Landscape

The President Steam Ship. After an engraving by R.G and A.W. Reeve published in 1840 from a painting by Samuel Walters. The British passenger liner SS President was the largest ship in the world.

Ships in the canal, Jan Brandes, 1779 - 1787 drawing Color drawing over two pages of four 'Scheepjes' by the draftsman seen in the English channel. Striking are the hel -yellow and bright red colors of the mirrors of the ships. The sea and clouds of sky are executed in gloomy gray shade. With inscription. Part of Jan Brandes' sketchbook, dl. 2 (1808), p. 58-59. Atlantic Ocean paper. pencil. watercolor (paint) brush sailing-ship, sailing-boat English Channel

The Tow Boat Conqueror 1852 James Guy Evans. The Tow Boat Conqueror 10858

Dutch Ship (Orandasen): Two views, side and rear, of a Dutch sailing vessel. On the right the vessel is firing her guns. Japanese print 1850-1900. Transport Marine Trade Europe Netherlands Japan

The Roads of Enkhuizen. Dating: 1654 - 1708. Measurements: h 86 cm × w 117.5 cm; d 8.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Abraham Storck.

The Astrolabe and Zelee ships arriving in Adelie Land during Dumont d'Urville's expedition in the Antarctic, 1840.

The Russian Ship of the Line 'Azov' and a Frigate at Anchor in the Roads of Elsinore by Eckersberg, Christoffer-Wilhelm (1783-1853) Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1828 Oil on canvas 63x51 Denmark Classicism Landscape,History Painting

An Amsterdam East Indiaman Sailing Vessel, attributed to Abraham de Verwer, c. 1625 - 1650

Boat on the Nile. Date/Period: 1867. Marine art. Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper. Height: 51 mm (2 in); Width: 83 mm (3.26 in). Author: Edward Lear.

Strijken van het zeil.Two men strok the sail from a flat bottom. In the background on the left a city and other ships. This print is part of an album.

A Scottish Warship, Artist Unknown 1650 - 1674

Close Reach for the Stake Boat, Boating & Leisure

The President Steam Ship. After an engraving by R.G and A.W. Reeve published in 1840 from a painting by Samuel Walters. The British passenger liner SS President was the largest ship in the world.

Sailing Boats and Barges on a Dutch() Estuary, John Berney Crome, 1794-1842, British

Fishing Boats Beating up to Windward. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1858. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Naval ships - Spanish Navy battleship Vitoria, 1865. Color illustration

Painting titled 'Dutch Ships in a Calm'. Painted by Willem van de Velde II (1633-1707). Dated 17th Century

The Home Fleet Saluting the State Barge, Jan van de Cappelle, 1650

Yacht racing on the Delaware river, Unites States of America, illustration from The Graphic, volume XXVIII, no 716, August 18, 1883. Digitally colorized image.

Parlin and Orendorff Co. - Clipper Plows (Sailing), Farm Machinery

Passing the Rubicon. Lieut. S. Bent in the Mississippi's first Cutter Forcing his way through a Fleet of Japanese Boats while Surveying the Bay of Yedo, Japan, 11th. 1853. Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885). Lithograph printed in colours. image: 52 x 82.5cm, sheet: 69.8 x 97.1cm.

Ships in the harbor, Naples, Italy, circa 1900

The sailing ship 'Hurunui' watercolours, works on paper

A New York Yacht Club Member's Race Between The Schooners Dreadnought, Estelle And Clio 1879 Antonio Jacobsen (1849-1921 American) Oil on canvas

Sledge Party Leaving H.M.S. Investigator in Mercy Bay-Sketches in the Arctic Regions Artist Unknown (British) Newberry Library, Chicago

Russian first rate ship of the line 'Parizh' by Evald, M. (active 19th century) State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg 1850s Holland Oil on canvas Painting History

Chinese Vessels, circa 1800

H.M.S. Algerine. Unknown mid-19th century A painting of the H.M.S. Algerine, a two-masted ship in use by the Royal Navy from 1829 - 1844. (Recto, mount) lower right, in pencil: "Algerine";

Marine transportation - Mediterranean merchant vessel 'polacre', 17th century. Color illustration

Sinop (ironclad warship) ca. 1892.

Marine transportation - Spanish caravel Santa Mara, 15th century. Color illustration

Frances Lichten, Toy Warship, 1935 1942 Toy Warship

Island of St. Helene 1826 Luis Choris (1795-1828 Russian) Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Kaiserin Augusta verlässt Newyork, Chromo-Lithographie von C. Saltzmann 95, nr13 aus G. Wislicenus, Unsre Kriegsflotte. German Battleship in New York Harbor, circa 1895

Transoceanic steamer "Antonio Lopez". Spanish Line (CTE). Engraving, 19th century. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana. 1882. Later colouration.

Dutch Ships in a Foreign Port. Dating: 1658. Measurements: h 91 cm × w 131 cm; d 5.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten.

Viking leads Ilex and Rawene past North Head. Auckland Anniversary Regatta, January 29th, 1914.' Oil on canvas, 61 cm x 91 cm, 2002. Private collection..With a fresh Northerly wind behind her, the large

Arrival of the British Queen at New York, 28 July 1839, by James Fulton Pringle (1788-1847). Created in 1840, the oil painting depicts ships in New York. 101.6 x 208.3 cm

USA, State of California, Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'s Steamer, Goodall, Perkins & Co., Currier & Ives, (1857-1907), USA, Washington, D.C., Library of Congress

History of Spain. Sailing regattas held in the bay of Santander, in the Abra del Sardinero, on 29 July 1884. Several recreational boats took part. Drawing by A. de Caula. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

Ships at Anchor on a Quiet Sea. Ships for anchor on a calm sea. A man with a basket on the back wads through the water. Left Load fishermen a rowing boat, behind them three sailing ships. In the distance right, a warship dissolves a shot.

The Harbor at Honfleur Frank Myers Boggs (American, 1855-1926). The Harbor at Honfleur, 1886. Oil on canvas, 34 9/16 x 50 1/2 in. (87.8 x 128.2 cm). In The Harbor at Honfleur, Frank Meyers Boggs skillfully distills the effects of natural light on water and moving forms. By 1876 the Brooklyn-trained landscape painter had settled in Paris, and he became a French citizen in 1923. He won the hearts of Parisian critics for his freely executed paintings and watercolors of architectural cityscapes and harbors such as that of the northern French coastal town of Honfleur. American Art 1886

Ships - Great Britain, Royal Navy - Centurion vessel (1732). Drawing

England, Devon, Dartmouth, Dartmouth Museum, Reproduction Painting by Turner of HMS Brittania and Hindustan in The River Dart

Nagasaki, Dutch ship at sea, print, prints, Japan (collection), height 319 mm, width 443 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1840 - 1850, second quarter 19th century, paper, papier, colour woodcut

Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed. Date/Period: 1818. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,854 mm (72.99 in); Width: 2,591 mm (102 in). Author: J. M. W. Turner.

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