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  • There are many pictures we would wish to notice, but we must forbear: we cannot, however, omit the mention of a sea-piece, which we thought very fine, with a watery sky; a good design, -- "North Sunderland Fishermen rendering assistance after a Squall."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

  • To our own eyes, in this respect, he stands indebted to the engraver; for we do not remember a single sea-piece by Turner, in water-colour or oil, in which the water is _liquid_.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

  • Salzmann is also authority for the statement that the Prince sent in a sea-piece to the annual Berlin Art Exhibition.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • It is as good a sea-piece as the best of Turner's; and we cannot give it higher praise.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • A pallid, black-haired woman with pendent earrings -- a woman who rather resembled Anna Zanidov -- was playing a sea-piece by MacDowell in the light of a tall lamp.

    Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

  • A sea-piece, by Turner, was next to it, -- a gray picture, beautiful and true, but with no positive color in any part of it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

  • The autograph of this, which is preserved, is headed by a very elaborate circular pen-and-ink drawing, 6 inches in diameter, —a sunset sea-piece with rocks and formal groups of mermaidens, five or six together, singing as they stand (apparently) half-immersed in the shallows as described

    Notes 1918

  • When we met again before dinner, Gladwin walked across to a big picture, an old sea-piece, rather effectively painted, which Father Payne had found in a garret, and had had restored and framed.

    Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915

  • Salzmann is also authority for the statement that the Prince sent in a sea-piece to the annual Berlin Art Exhibition.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • The _Fight of the Kearsage and the Alabama_, a magnificent sea-piece, bathed in sunlight, announced this transformation in his work, as did also a study, a _Garden_, painted, I believe, in 1870, but exhibited only after the crisis of the terrible year.

    The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

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