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  • Cleopatra setting fire to the sails of a ship . Etching by F. Chauveau., 1648.
  • A boat sails towards a floating vision of Ganesh as a child. Engraving by an Indian artist, 1800s.
  • A balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A large flying machine with sails and propellers is travelling over a town. Colour lithograph by W.L. Walton.
  • The Trinity Hospital, Greenwich, with the sails of a ship in the distance. Coloured engraving by Angus after Tomkins, 1801.
  • A flying boat devised by Franciscus Lana, with sails and balloons attached to it, and with three men as passengers. Engraving after J.C. Sturm, 1789.
  • A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.
  • A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541.
  • Sail makers cut and stretch out sailcloth, hang it up and fit it to masts. Etching by W. H. Pyne, 1802.
  • Boats: some being loaded, some repaired, others sail loaded with logs and different cargo. Etching by W.H. Pyne after himself, aquatinted by I. Hill.
  • A man wearing a costume and a mask and holding a sail is riding in a boat with wheels and chains attached to it. Lithograph.
  • Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.
  • Astronomy: a sailing ship at the North Cape, Norway, sailing under the midnight sun. Engraving, 1825.
  • View of the Manam river, Bangkok, Siam, with sailing ships anchored
  • Six sailing boats navigate choppy seas. Wood engraving by G.H. Andrews.
  • Civil engineering: the iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, with a ship sailing beneath. Engraving.
  • A sailing boat with a man sleeping inside it. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • Three children play with boats sailing in a large tub of water. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sailing boat with a man sleeping inside it. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A large iceberg with a ship sailing past it. Coloured engraving by or after E. Weedon.
  • Geography: a gigantic iceberg at sea, dwarfing a sailing ship. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Sailing ships and rowing boats at Alexandria, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • A man in the water holding on to his capsized sailing boat. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A man in the water holding on to his capsized sailing boat. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • Sailing boat on the Nile, with mountains in the distance. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Men are fishing for whale in small boats with harpoons; larger sailing ships are in the distance. Aquatint.
  • A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.
  • Cupids in a sailing boat, representing the element water. Stipple engraving by A. Cardon, 1802, after A.W. Devis.
  • Civil engineering: the Wearmouth Iron Bridge at Sunderland, with ships sailing beneath, and details (above). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • H.M.S. Grampus, a hospital ship, lying off Deptford Creek, Greenwich, sailing boats nearby. Lithograph by W. P. Kay, ca. 1827.