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Drawing the Eel
Salomon van Ruysdael
early 1650s
Stopped Pipe with bellows
Native American (Haida)
mid 19th–late 19th century
Stopped Pipe with bellows
Native American (Northwest Coast)
mid 19th–late 19th century
The Eel Master (Unagi danna), illustration from Bugei Kurabu (Literary Club)
Mizuno Toshikata
The Resurrection
Melchior Meier
1577
The Rearing of Satyrs' Children
Martin Johann Schmidt
1771
St. James the Greater Preaching
Martin Johann Schmidt
ca. 1764
Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore
Johan Christian Dahl
1819
Forest Landscape
Domenico Quaglio II
n.d.
House on a Hillside
Domenico Quaglio II
ca. 1806–8
Elevation en perspective d'une colonne destinée pour la Sépultre d'une Reine
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
1746–50
Portrait of René Hérault
Jean Etienne Liotard
1731
Wartburg in the 14th Century
Friedrich Preller the Elder
19th century
The Angel of Time
Ignace Duvivier
ca. 1793
Rest on the Flight to Egypt with the Infant St. John
Jacques Fricquet
ca. 1665–70
Chute d'Eau
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1785–90
Chute d'Eau
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1785–90
Figures and Heads
Benjamin Green
1773
A triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, plate 7 from "Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)
Stefano della Bella
ca. 1646
Eel-Catcher's House
Ernest Haskell
1900–1925
Eels
Seki Shūkō
ca. 1890–92
Dancing for Eels
James Brown
1848
Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Peter Henry Emerson
1885–86
"Beckford-Behague" Ewer
Jean Guillaume Moitte
1790
Peddler of eels
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1750
Cabot's "Quilt" [insulation made of Eel grass]
Samuel Cabot, Inc.
first half 20th century
Man Taking an Eel by Its Tail while Listening to the Assurances fo a Woman, from Proverbi Figurati, plate 24
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
1678
Cuffee Dancing for Eels – Catharine Market (Life in New York)
1857
Eel from Cowan's Educational Pictures (Canadian Fish) (V10)
Cowan Company, Limited
ca. 1920–29
Vase
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
1756–60
Round dish with moss and fish
José Francisco de Sousa
1860–93
Eel, from the Zoo Fish series (E32) issued by The Philadelphia Confections Co. to promote Zoo Caramels
The Philadelphia Confections Co.
1910
Eel, from the Fish from American Waters series (N8) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter
1889
Eel, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter
1889
Lamprey Eel, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes
Knapp & Company
1888
Lamprey Eel, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes
Knapp & Company
1888
Onmayagashi in Edo
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
1830–44
Rome
Francesca Woodman
1978
Fox With Two Herons
Frans Snyders
ca. 1630–40
Rowel Spur
Mexican
second half 18th–early 19th century