Swimming Collection

Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer, 1926. On 6 August 1926 Ederle (1905-2003) became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, which she achieved in a time of 14 hours and 30 minutes

The Bathing Pool. Creator: Hubert Robert
The Bathing Pool

August - the Chateau d Etampes, 15th century, (1939). Creator: Jean Limbourg
August - the Chateau d Etampes, 15th century, (1939). Aout - Le Chateau D Etampes. Nobles ride out on a falconry expedition: the man on the right is a beater with long stick to flush out the game

The swimming bath, Royal Navy training establishment, Shotley, Suffolk, 1936. Known within the service as HMS Ganges, Shotley was Britains largest Royal Naval training establishment from 1905 until

Cycling, Sport, Fun, Travel, 20th century. A print from La Manufacture Francais D Armes et Cycles de Saint-Etienne, French mail order catalog

Marianao Bathing Beach, Havana, Cuba, c1910. [Edicion. Jordi]

Three Bathers, 1894. Creator: Felix Vallotton
Three Bathers, 1894

Coney Isl., 1/3/15, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Coney Isl., 1915.

Woman in aeroplane ready for swimming, Pittsburgh, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Woman in aeroplane ready for swimming, Pittsburgh, 1910. Woman standing on a railing, holding a bi-plane wing structure on her shoulders

A party of Wuzurees crossing the Indus on water-jars, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A party of Wuzurees crossing the Indus on water-jars, 1864. 'The readiness shown by the natives of India in making the most of the means at their disposal is quite a national characteristic

Embarking cattle at the port of Tamatave, Madagascar, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Embarking cattle at the port of Tamatave, Madagascar, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Lieutenant S. P. Oliver showing '...the mode of putting cattle on shipboard in a port of Madagascar

Pioneer camp, 1929. Creator: GP Putintsev
Pioneer camp, 1929. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents drawn from the personal archives of people who lived in the town of Berdsk in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Maidstone Club, 1932. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Maidstone Club, 1932

Lieutenant Cameron's Sketches in Central Africa: a lake dwelling on Lake Moheya, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Lieutenant Cameron's Sketches in Central Africa: a lake dwelling on Lake Moheya, 1876. A...feature of some interest is one of the "lake dwellings

The Ship of Salvation, 1512. Creator: Johann Gruninger
The Ship of Salvation, 1512. Christ is crucified on the mast of a sailing ship. Around him are depictions of other episodes from the Bible

C'est un petit diable un vrai Dauphin... 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est un petit diable un vrai Dauphin... 1839. C'est un petit diable un vrai Dauphin; il adore l'eau! si on ne le retenait pas...il y resterait'

The Girl Saku Rescuing a Baby from the River, published in 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Girl Saku Rescuing a Baby from the River, published in 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 729

Women Crossing the Oi River, c1800. Creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Women Crossing the Oi River, c1800

The Royal Visit to India: Pala Fishermen on the Indus, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Royal Visit to India: Pala Fishermen on the Indus, 1876. From a sketch by Captain Frank James, of the Bombay Staff Corps. From "Illustrated London News", 1876

Krishna Steals the Gopis Clothing, 1775-1800. Creator: Unknown
Krishna Steals the Gopis Clothing, 1775-1800. The Hindu god Krishna steals the clothing of the gopis - young women of Brindavan - while they are bathing in the Yamuna River

At sea; Amid the lifeboatds, rafts and swimmers, a French gunboat arrives... 1917. Creator: Unknown
At sea; Amid the lifeboatds, rafts and swimmers, a French gunboat arrives to collect the shipwreck survivors of the "Sontay", 1917

Illustration for Johann Christoph Mayer's History of the Crusades, 1781. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for Johann Christoph Mayer's History of the Crusades, 1781

The Water-Sprite and Ägir's Daughters, 1850. Creator: Nils Jakob Blommer
The Water-Sprite and Agir's Daughters, 1850. AEgir and his nine wave daughters from Norse mythology

Mandarin Ducks, 19th century. Creator: Hokusai
Mandarin Ducks, 19th century. Series: Birds and Flowers. Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai

Hearst Castle, California, USA, 2022. Creator: Ethel Davies
Hearst Castle, California, USA, 2022. The Neptune Pool, designed by Julia Morgan, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, USA

Hearst Castle, California, USA, 2022. Creator: Ethel Davies
Hearst Castle, California, USA, 2022. The Birth of Venus sculpture, commissioned by William Randloph Hearst in 1927, now in a fountain at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, USA

Design for a plate with two blue and yellow fish and waterlilies, c.1875-c.1890. Creator: Gustave Fraipont
Design for a plate with two blue and yellow fish and waterlilies, c.1875-c.1890

Design for a plate with three blue and yellow fish and a water plant, c.1875-c.1890. Creator: Gustave Fraipont
Design for a plate with three blue and yellow fish and a water plant, c.1875-c.1890

Design for a plate with four brown fish and a white iris, c.1875-c.1890. Creator: Gustave Fraipont
Design for a plate with four brown fish and a white iris, c.1875-c.1890

Design for a plate with red fish, c.1875-c.1890. Creator: Gustave Fraipont
Design for a plate with red fish, c.1875-c.1890

Madame la Baronne, j'ai bien l'honneur!, 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
Madame la Baronne, j'ai bien l'honneur!, 1853. Madam Baroness, I have the honour! [I am honoured/it is my honour]'. From Croquis aquatiques, no. 6

Les Tritons de la Seine, 1864. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Tritons de la Seine, 1864. The Tritons of the Seine. Series: Paris dans l'eau (Paris in the water); Periodical: Petit Journal, 9 July 1864

C'est bien ici qu'il m'avait... 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est bien ici qu'il m'avait... 1853. - C'est bien ici qu'il m'avait donne rendez-vous entre la 4me et la 5eme vague

Quels affreux galets... 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
Quels affreux galets... 1853. - Quels affreux galets...impossible de marcher la dessus...ce n'est reellement que sur les bords de la mer que l'on apprecie et que l'on regrette le macadam

Entrez donc dans la mer sans crainte... 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
Entrez donc dans la mer sans crainte... 1856. Entrez-donc dans la mer sans crainte, Monsieur Potard, vous voyez bien qu'il n'y a pas de danger puisque j'y suis

Ostende, 1857. Creator: Félicien Rops
Ostende, 1857. From periodical: Uylenspiegel, no. 29, 16 August 1857

Civilis Forced to Dismount and Swim Across the River, Publshed 1612. Creator: Antonio Tempesta
Civilis Forced to Dismount and Swim Across the River, Publshed 1612. From The War of the Romans Against the Batavians, pl. 31

Sohni Swims to Meet Her Lover Mahinwal, between c1750 and c1775. Creator: Unknown
Sohni Swims to Meet Her Lover Mahinwal, between c1750 and c1775

Boys Bathing, 1902. Creator: Peter Hansen
Boys Bathing, 1902

De Baak, a seaside resort on the IJ, 1803. Creator: Juriaan Andriessen
De Baak, a seaside resort on the IJ, 1803

View on a coast with ships and boats on the cliffs in Norway, 1700-1799. Creators: Anon, Pierre Maleuvre
View on a coast with ships and boats on the cliffs in Norway, 1700-1799

View of the Grand Canal in the garden of the Palais de Fontainebleau, 1700-1799. Creators: Anon, Jacques Rigaud
View of the Grand Canal in the garden of the Palais de Fontainebleau, 1700-1799

Male bath, 1750-1850. Creators: Anon, Martinet Hautecoeur
Male bath, 1750-1850. Swimming pool or bathhouse with men in the water. On the right, a man with a thermometer measures the temperature of the bath water

Hands up on the beach at Atlantic City, N.J. between 1900 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
Hands up on the beach at Atlantic City, N.J. between 1900 and 1920

Ducks. Creator: Rudolf Schramm-Zittau
Ducks, unknown date

Capt. Riley and lifeguards, Coney Island, N.Y. between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Capt. Riley and lifeguards, Coney Island, N.Y. between 1900 and 1905

Royal hunt, 1749-1848. Creator: Unknown
Royal hunt, 1749-1848

A Throw down, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
A Throw down, between 1900 and 1905

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