Portrait of the French ship ‘Neptune’, viewed from the port beam. She was built in Holland in 1666, about 72 guns. She was renamed ‘Illustre’ in 1671; she was struck off the list in 1699.

This is an accurate drawing, probably based on an offset, being rubbed on the back, worked up with pencil and wash.

A drawing in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, showing a ship viewed from the starboard quarter has been tentatively identified as the ‘Neptune’ mainly on account of the large figure of Neptune above the tafferel; it agrees fairly closely but not exactly with PAG6210 as regards the arrangement of the ports.