A ship in a light breeze viewed from slightly before the port beam with her three topsails half-mast high, and her mizzen set and courses clewed up.

One of seven drawings freely but accurately done. The group is approximately dated by the subjects and signatures, but by the style and papers they might be later. The van de Veldes clearly found a sale for their Dutch scenes even during the war with Holland, so that drawings cannot be assigned to the Dutch or English periods by the subject alone.