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| Oscar Björck Launching the Boat 1888 oil on canvas Skagens Museum, Denmark |
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| Carl Bloch Young Sailor 1874 oil on copper Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
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| Ditlev Conrad Blunck Infancy (Four Ages of Man) ca. 1840-45 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Ditlev Conrad Blunck Youth (Four Ages of Man) ca. 1840-45 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Ditlev Conrad Blunck Manhood (Four Ages of Man) ca. 1840-45 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Ditlev Conrad Blunck Old Age (Four Ages of Man) ca. 1840-45 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Arnold Clementschitsh Over the Water ca. 1920-30 oil on board Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Solomon Corrodi Coast of the Island of Capri 1835 watercolor on paper Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Hendrik Jacobsz Dubbels Seascape ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Albert Edelfelt At Sea 1883 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Carl Locher Fishing Boats in Moonlight 1888 oil on canvas Skagens Museum, Denmark |
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| Sebastiano Ricci The Miraculous Draught of Fishes ca. 1695-97 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Karl Schnebel Sport im Bild (magazine) ca. 1910 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Keelmen heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Claude-Joseph Vernet Fishing Port at Dawn 1774 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Anders Zorn In My Gondola 1894 oil on canvas Zornmuseet, Mora, Sweden |
It was to Thisbe that Thermouthis was hurrying, confident that she had escaped the perils of war. He landed on the island and ran as fast as his legs would carry him to the huts, of which nothing now remained but ashes. With some difficulty Thermouthis located the entrance to the cave by the stone that lay across it. Making a torch from the few, still smoldering reeds that were left, he scrambled down into the cave as quickly as he could, calling Thisbe by name – for her name was the one word of Greek he knew. But the sight of her dead body struck him dumb. A long time he stood there, but eventually he became aware of the hum and murmur of voices floating upwards from the bowels of the cave, for Theagenes and Knemon were still engaged in conversation. He concluded that these were Thisbe's murderers, but now he was in a quandary: on the one hand he had the hot blood of all brigands and the quick temper of all savages, which, aggravated by his frustrated passion, impelled him to close with the supposed culprits there and then; on the other hand he had no weapon, no sword. Reluctantly he was constrained to control his impulses: better, he thought, to conceal his hostile intentions for the first encounter, then to wreak vengeance on his foes the moment he could lay his hands on a weapon. Thus resolved, he presented himself to Theagenes and the others. But the wild and cruel way he regarded them made all too plain that purpose hidden in his heart.
– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)