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.
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Object Details
ID: | PAF7029 |
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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 |