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Description: | ?Captijn ma(?xmi)lijaen? [crossed out ?duijvenvoorde?] ?Wassenaer?
??enear' ?Wassenaer?
A portrait of the ?Wassenaer?, 56 guns, built 1666, wrecked 1681, viewed from well abaft the starboard beam. There are a number of shot holes in the hull. The English ensign reversed over the stern is probably the ?Convertine?s? captured at the Four Days? Battle, 1-4 [OS]/ 11-14 June 1666.
On the tafferel are the arms of Wassenaer supported by two lions. On a shield on the rail above is a lion rampant and the same on the upper counter indicating the Admiralty of the Maas.
The drawing is inscribed ??enaer? copied by a later hand ?Wassenaar?; also in brown ink, not in van de Velde?s hand ?dis-s [cut]?; on the back ?Captijn ma(?xmi)lijaen? [crossed out ?duijvenvoorde?] ?Wassenaar?. The ?Duivenvoorde? had the three crescents for Duivenvoorde on her stern, similar to the crescents in the first and fourth quarters of the ?Wassenaar?, as shown in a drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing was used for the painting of the prizes brought into the Wielings after the Four Days? Battle, of which there is a version in the Rijksmuseum (2471).
Box Title: D28 M322-M339.
caption: 1789, Portrait of the 'Wassenaar' | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings water transport: fighting vessel: 56 guns [Dutch navy] Wassenaar 1666 [Dutch navy] Willem van de Velde | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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