Description: | 1585
BSI/172
IB
J/5
Ships of the Dutch navy occupy the foreground, middle and far distance in this compositional study, which has been worked successively in graphite, wash and pen. On the right, a starboard quarter view of a battleship with the wind on the port quarter; in the left middle distance is a lee bow view of another ship on the starboard tack (with a small coastal vessel nearby); and further into the distance is port broadside view of a third ship.
The drawing is inscribed in ink: ?W.V.V.J?.
Box Title: Van de Velde, Ingram No 6, 955, 957, 959, 961, 964-968, 974-975, 977-978, 980, 982-983.
caption: A Dutch flagship in a quartering breeze |