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Description: | On the left, a port broadside view of a ship close-hauled on the starboard tack with only her fore course set; her main course has blown out of the bolt-ropes; a flag at the fore. Rocks in the centre foreground, with several men lying on them. In the right background are other rocks with a ship driving onto them.
This drawing by the Younger is signed in brown ink ?W.V.VJ.? It is in black chalk and grey wash heightened with white on grey paper.
Box Title: Van de Velde 1688-1700. Ingram nos 1299-1349.
caption: A Dutch ship trying to claw off a rocky shore | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings water transport: fighting vessel: man of war [Dutch navy] | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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