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W.V.VJ (part)
benet aenslaen
Four sketches of outboard loading depicting a man standing on a channel sponging; kneeling on a channel ramming; standing on a channel astride a gun sponing and sitting astride a gun sponing. There is also a depiction of a man holding a sponge and rammer. There is a rough sketch of part of the fore course hauled out to a bowline, showing hands lacing on the bonnet.
This is a pencil, pen and brown ink drawing by the Younger. It is signed in brown ink with part of the signature ?W.V.VJ?. The pen-work suggests a date as late as 1701, but the signature with no loop to the ?J? is in the same ink and is of a much earlier period. The earlier date is confirmed by the absence of a cathead, signifying a Dutch ship, the unlikelihood that a large ship would have had a bonnet in 1701 and the fact that other drawings on the same paper are dated 1664.
Box Title: D38. M468-M484.
caption: Loading guns and lacing on the fore bonnet | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings loading seamanship: guns Willem van de Velde | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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