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Description: | ?Wapen van middelburg?
The ?Middelburg?, viewed from the starboard quarter. The fore and main topsails, driver and mainsail are loosed. There is a flag and pendant at the fore. On the tafferel (the upper part of a vessel?s stern) are the arms of Zeeland on a round shield, crowned and supported by two savages, with their legs crossed, holding clubs. Above are crossed anchors and a castle for Middelburg, and between the slingerlijsts (moulding across the stern of a Dutch ship below the tafferel), a pitcher for Vlissingen (Flushing).
The drawing is inscribed on the reverse in a late hand ?Wapen van middelburg?. However, there is also a cut inscription in van de Velde?s hand ??gen?, and the drawing may actually depict the ?Vlissigen?, which in September 1664 wore the flag of Vice-Admiral Cornelis Evertsen.
This is an unsigned faint offset, by the Elder, worked up with pencil. It has been damaged by rubbing of the surface, giving the pencil-work the appearance of being an offset. It has been approximately dated to 1664-65 by the watermark.
Name of ship on mount differs from that in the Van de Velde Catalogue. Portfolio.
caption: Portrait of the ?Middelburg? | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings Cornelis George Willem van de Vattier-Kraane Velde | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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