Studies of the lead of the main sheet of a small vessel

The drawing is inscribed ‘dit soo een / gijk set / stiffe / aen besaen’ (showing how a boom on a mizzen is sheeted home) and below ‘en sprack Losse gieft biet haer bleeke moet / andis die met Lust den wegh hier socht te banne / d wegh daer t’minne wight / sijn eerste autaer vont hij sont hij streelt hij vleijt met halsemire Lomcken s. / wat dar daer mer is geschiet / denok ick wel maer segh het niet s. snuijve en roncke’ (? A speechles gift, he profers her a faint heart; Andrew who tries to find the way here through lust, the way the lover found the first altar. He kisses, he caresses, he flatters with amorous looks and hugs with sniffing and snorting. What happens more, I know, but tell it not.). The drawing is unsigned.

Object Details

ID: PAF7029
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Date made: 1700?
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Mount: 483 x 318 mm;Primary support: 297 x 207 mm