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Description: | To the right, a starboard bow view of a three-decker bearing up before the wind with her fore course, three topsails and spritsail topsail set; flags at the fore and main. On the left, a starboard quarter view of a ship with flag at the main having only her fore topsail set. Five other ships in the background, including on the right a rear-admiral close hauled on the port tack.
This is an unsigned pencil and wash drawing by the Younger, with slight strengthenings in pen and brown ink. It may possibly be a faint drawing with some was added by a later hand. The corrections in brown ink are quite in the manner of the Younger.
Box Title: Van de Velde 1675-1681. Ingram nos 1157-1222.
caption: English flagships getting under way in a light breeze | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | water transport: fighting vessel: flagship [British navy] drawings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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