British gunboats and Tanka egg-boats at Whampoa, Canton, a deep water anchorage on the China Coast

From left: Hjalmar Olsson and Gunnar Nestling, brother of Hjalmar and David Olsson, on the construction of the Ljungström boat Zinganee, built in a copy at Arendals Båtlap. The bo...

Although Peter Mykytenko was born in Ukraine and joined the Ukrainian Geelong community in Australia in the 1950s, Peter and his parents wanted to migrate to England. Peter and h...

This is a plan of Deal Castle, the Tudor artillery fort dating from around 1539. One of a chain of castles along the south coast of England commission by Henry VIII to protect the ...

In the 1650s Ruysdael produced a series of small-format, vertical, marine views in which he experimented with light and atmospheric effects on large areas of water and sky. Art his...

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...

Watercolour of the Salt Water Lake east of Calcutta by Thomas Prinsep (1800-1830) c.1827-8. Inscribed on the album page, 'Salt Water Lake. c.1827-8, Hollowed date trees as canoes, ...