The quarter-gallery of the Happy Return

The detail of the port quarter-gallery and a square port and two wreathed ports just before it. Bottom left, a port broadside view of the ship in the middle-distance, only her lowermasts stepped. It is inscribed ‘heeperiton’.

This is an unsigned pencil drawing by the Younger.

Object Details

ID: PAF6974
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Vessels: Happy Return (1654)
Date made: 1685?
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 216 x 314 mm; Mount: 403 mm x 553 mm