Dutch ships getting under way. In the left foreground is a ship drawn from close under the stern with her fore course and topsail set, her main topsail loosed on the cap and her mizzen shaking.

There is a flag at the fore and presumably a pendant at the main cut off; probably Verhaef in the ‘Rotterdam’, the tafferel having on it a coat-of-arms with lion supporters. A galjoot, of which the bow and the stern can be seen, lying across her bow. In the right middle-distance is a starboard quarter view of a flagship with another ship before the wind; she has flag and pendant at the mizzen, and so is probably the ‘Breda’. Land is visible in the distance.

It may have been cut from numbered drawings of the Northern Expedition, 1658.