Loading guns and lacing on the fore bonnet
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.
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.
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Object Details
ID: | PAF6464 |
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Type: | Drawing |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Velde, Willem van de, the Younger |
Date made: | 1664? |
People: | Velde, Willem van de, the Younger |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
Measurements: | Primary support: 140 mm x 280 mm; Mount: 406 mm x 559 mm |