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Sailing vessel 'Coming up from Leigham Sea' (Drawing)
Rough sketch of vessels and buildings at ' Queenborough 6.30PM. July 1924' (Drawing)
Rough sketch of cathedral? with barge and tug on the river Thames? (Drawing)
XXXVI. A distant view of Veere in the Island of Walcheren, 23 June 1923 (Print)
Sailing vessel on a calm sea at sunset, 1928 (Drawing)
Small sailing boats 'off West Mersea 17 April 1924' (Drawing)
The Thames at Erith and Barking, 'looking E', 'opposite Erith' and 'looking W' (Drawing)
Cutty Sark (1869) in the East India Dock. (Drawing)
Very rough sketches, two of Galleon's Reach and one of Woolwich ferry (Drawing)
Sketch of shipping at Torremolinos (Drawing)
Sketch of a rowing boat at the end of a wooden ramp at the edge of a bay with pier beyond and three sailing vessels on reverse (Drawing)
Gale at Port Erroll (Print)
Sketch of sailing vessels in harbour at Urk 1923, and another of four small sailing vessels at sea (Drawing)
Botters hauled up at Urk on the Ijsselmeer, 1923 (Drawing)
VII. The Harbour at Antwerp, 24 January 1922 (Print)
XVII. Early morning in the harbour of Catterline, Kincardine, 1919 (Print)
XIII. Two Tjotters at Genemuiden 19 August 1923 (Print)
XXVI. The Torpedoed Sussex at Boulogne 1916 (Print)
XIII. The ferry at Brightlingsea incorrectly inscribed 'Burnham', August 1921 (Print)
The entrance to the harbour at Lemmer on the Ijsselmeer, 1923 (Drawing)
IX. Collieston, 1588 (Print)
Stonington August 1945 (Drawing)
No. 1. Enkhuisen Harbour, 21 Aug 1910 (Print)
III. Venice, a gondolier on the Grand Canal, 19 October 1925 (Print)
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