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| Carl Kuntz Falls of the Rhine near Schaffhausen 1793 watercolor and gouache on paper Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Anonymous Swiss Artist Fireworks over the Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen ca. 1890 postcard Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Anonymous Swiss Artist Fireworks over the Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen ca. 1910 postcard Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| John Mix Stanley Palouse Falls 1860 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Gustave Courbet Falls of the Doubs ca. 1855-60 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice |
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| Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Waterfalls at Tivoli 1744 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lovis Corinth Walchensee with the Slope of the Jochberg 1924 oil on canvas Landesmuseum Hannover |
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| Charles Cushman Ocean Beach from Sutro Heights, San Francisco 1952 Kodachrome slide Indiana University Library, Bloomington |
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| Félix Vallotton Evening View of Trouville 1910 oil on canvas Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Frits Thaulow Behind the Mills, Montreuil-sur-Mer 1892 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Per Christian Brown Tiergarten 2014 C-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| Marinus Pieter Reus Bridge over a Ditch ca. 1890 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Kalle Berggren Bathing Platform 1976 gouache on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Karl Theodor Reiffenstein Wooden Sluice 1860 watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Christian Rohlfs The Sternbrücke, Weimar 1887 oil on canvas Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany |
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| Johan Rohde Evening by the Karup 1889 oil on canvas Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
For the Grecians in old time, and such barbarians as in the continent lived near unto the sea or else inhabited the islands after once they began to cross over one to another in ships, became thieves and went abroad under the conduct of their most puissant men, both to enrich themselves and to fetch in maintenance for the weak, and falling upon towns unfortified and scatteringly inhabited, rifled them and made this the best means of their living, being a matter at that time nowhere in disgrace but rather carrying with it something of glory. This is manifest by some that dwell on the continent, amongst whom, so it be performed nobly, it is still esteemed as an ornament. The same also is proved by some of the ancient poets, who introduce men questioning of such as sail by, on all coasts alike, whether they be thieves or not, as a thing neither scorned by such as were asked nor upbraided by those that were desirous to know. They also robbed one another within the mainland. And much of Greece useth that old custom, as the Locrians called Ozolae, the Acarnanians, and those of the continent in that quarter, unto this day. Moreover, the fashion of wearing iron remaineth yet with the people of that continent from their old trade of thieving.
For once they were wont throughout all Greece to go armed because their houses were unfenced and travelling was unsafe, and accustomed themselves, like the barbarians, to the ordinary wearing of their armour. And the nations of Greece that live so yet, do testify that the same manner of life was anciently universal to all the rest. Amongst whom the Athenians were the first that laid by their armour and growing civil, passed into a more tender kind of life. And such of the rich as were anything stepped into years laid away upon the same delicacy, not long after, the fashion of wearing linen coats and golden grasshoppers, which they were wont to bind up in the locks of their hair.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)