A ketch and two flyboats before the wind

In the centre, a port broadside view of a ketch before a light breeze. Astern of her a there is a flyboat and on her starboard bow another flyboat. There are men in a boat in the right foreground.

This is a pencil drawing by the Younger, signed in brown ink, ‘W.V.VJ’.

Object Details

ID: PAF6913
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Date made: 1675?
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 201 x 316 mm; Mount: 380 mm x 547 mm