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Description: | The head and starboard side, of a yacht; the figurehead is a merlion holding a sword in the right paw and supporting a small shield with the left. Close abaft the lion a cherub riding on a dolphin; and abaft that, a hawsehole decorated with a dolphin and figure.
This is a pencil and brown ink drawing by the Younger, signed in brown ink ?W.V.VJ.? It is inscribed ?17 w 9.?
Box Title: Van de Velde 1685-1686. Ingram nos 1266-1298.
caption: The head of a Dutch yacht | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings water transport: service vessel: yacht [Dutch] | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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