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KUPFERSTICH SAMLUNG DER KONIGL. MUSEEN
Suermondt./ J. n. N: 4081 (?)
W.V.V.J.
W.v.d. Velde
In the centre of this crowded, if lightly drawn scene is a starboard bow view of a ship, presumably an Indiaman, surrounded and engaged by three small Spanish privateers, each flying the Burgundian flag. The overlaying of sails and masts conveys effectively the slow-paced violence of such encounters, an aspect of life at sea that the artist explored at length in his full-scale oil paintings.
Box Title: Van de Velde, Ingram No 9, 1176-1218.
caption: An Indiaman engaged by three Spanish privateers | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | water transport: fighting vessel: privateer [Spanish navy] drawings water transport: passenger/cargo vessel: Indiaman Sancte Domingo [Spanish navy] | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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