A portrait of the ‘Wassenaer’, 56 guns, built 1666, wrecked 1681, viewed from well abaft the starboard beam. There are a number of shot holes in the hull. The English ensign reversed over the stern is probably the ‘Convertine’s’ captured at the Four Days’ Battle, 1-4 [OS]/ 11-14 June 1666.

On the tafferel are the arms of Wassenaer supported by two lions. On a shield on the rail above is a lion rampant and the same on the upper counter indicating the Admiralty of the Maas.

The drawing is inscribed ‘…enaer’ copied by a later hand ‘Wassenaar’; also in brown ink, not in van de Velde’s hand ‘dis-s [cut]’; on the back ‘Captijn ma(?xmi)lijaen’ [crossed out ‘duijvenvoorde’] ‘Wassenaar’. The ‘Duivenvoorde’ had the three crescents for Duivenvoorde on her stern, similar to the crescents in the first and fourth quarters of the ‘Wassenaar’, as shown in a drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

This drawing was used for the painting of the prizes brought into the Wielings after the Four Days’ Battle, of which there is a version in the Rijksmuseum (2471).