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Description: | This may be a portrait of the ?Guernsey?, fifth-rate, 30 guns. She was built in 1654 as the ?Basing?. She was renamed in 1660 and condemned in 1693.
She is viewed from abaft the starboard beam. On the tafferel is a large cross with a helmet and mantling above it, presumably the arms of Guernsey. Above the quarter gallery is a swan with wings outspread.
It is freely drawn, but not as accurately as most drawings by the Younger at this period. The ship is shown too long for the amount of stern showing, and the stern is heeled slightly to port while the fore part of the ship is not.
Box Title: Ingram. Van de Velde 1675-1676. G 1104-1197.
caption: Portrait of the 'Guernsey' | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings Guernsey 1654 [British navy] Willem van de Velde | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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