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| Willem van de Velde the Younger Ships off the Coast 1672 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Simon Fokke Rough Water in the Haarlemmermeer 1755 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Johan Christian Dahl Boats on Beach near Naples 1821 oil on canvas KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen, Norway |
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| John Sell Cotman Seascape off the Mersey 1835 watercolor and gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Knud Bull The Wreck of the George the Third 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Rafael Monleón y Torres Calma en el puerto de Valencia 1875 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Albert Pinkham Ryder Moonlight 1887 oil on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Childe Hassam Building the schooner Provincetown 1900 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama |
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| Anonymous Swiss Printmaker Zürichsee ca. 1900 postcard Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Anonymous American Artist The Sinking of the Titanic after 1912 oil on glass, with mother-of-pearl collage Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| James Ranalph Jackson The Holiday 1916 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Henry Billings Marine Elements ca. 1936-37 screenprint Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Tristram Hillier Le Havre de Grace 1939 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Edward John Hughes Village Wharf 1956 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Alex Colville Embarkation 1994 acrylic on panel Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Cyril Hirtle Untitled (Many Fish) before 2003 watercolor and ink on board Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| David Levinthal The Sinking of the Titanic 2014 inkjet print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from Works and Days
When gods alike and mortals rose to birth,
A golden race th' immortals form'd on earth
Of many-languag'd men; they liv'd of old,
When Saturn reign'd in heaven – an age of gold.
Like gods they liv'd, with calm untroubled mind,
Free from the toil and anguish of our kind.
Nor sad decrepid age approaching nigh
Their limbs mishap'd with swoln deformity.
Strangers to ill, they Nature's banquets prov'd,
Rich in Earth's fruits, and of the blest belov'd:
They sank to death, as opiate slumber stole
Soft o'er the sense, and whelm'd the willing soul.
Theirs was each good: the grain-exuberant soil
Pour'd the full harvest, uncompell'd by toil:
The virtuous many dwelt in common blest,
And all unenvying shar'd what all in peace possess'd.
– Hesiod (700 BC), translated by Charles Elton (1812)