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Ballin, Auguste
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The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
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An English ship in a strong breeze (Drawing)
Sketch of a Middle Eastern craft, 14th March 1869 (Drawing)
Horses and a cart with figures (Drawing)
Sir Charles Saunders, 1713?-1775 (Drawing)
Lord Rodney (Drawing)
98. Sketch of the Girdler lightship and a sailing craft (Drawing)
A galjoot in a gale (Drawing)
A Dutch ship drying sails (Drawing)
Two English frigates in a light breeze (Drawing)
Emma Hart as Miranda (?) (Drawing)
A ship becalmed off a headland by moonlight (Drawing)
An English yacht becalmed (Drawing)
A ship in stays with other vessels in a breeze (Drawing)
A flagship becalmed with fishermen hauling in a net (Drawing)
'Landscape and boat' Coastguard station with small craft at sea (Drawing)
A flagship before the wind with another ship saluting (Drawing)
Dutch fishing vessels hauled up ashore (Drawing)
A small ship lying to in a gale (Drawing)
A Dutch ship with the wind on the port quarter (Drawing)
A ship close-hauled in a strong breeze (Drawing)
Study of a hooker (Drawing)
An English yacht in a light air (Drawing)
A Dutch ship trying to claw off a rocky shore (Drawing)
A small merchant vessel, probably Mediterranean (Drawing)
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