Detail of decoration for Dutch vessels

A depiction of three rudder-heads of a galjoot or boeier; a dragon forming the hawsehole in the rail of a small vessel; a free drawing of the stern of a small Dutch frigate; and the port quarter of the same frigate.

This is an unsigned pencil drawing by the Younger. According to Robinson it is a note of decoration in rapid pencil, which is less surely handled than the Younger’s later work. It has been approximately dated by the subject.

Object Details

ID: PAF6538
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Date made: 1672?
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: Primary support: 183 mm x 267 mm; Mount: 402 mm x 555 mm