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Portrait of the 'Royal Escape'
This is a depiction of a vessel viewed from before the starboard beam. There are five square decorated ports on the broadside.
This is a rapid but nonetheless accurate drawing and it has been approximately dated by its watermark. There is another similar drawing of this vessel in the British Museum, which was probably a preparatory work for finished oil paintings of the same subject. These pictures are “The ‘Royal Escape’ in a Breeze” by Van de Velde the Younger, dated before 1685 and currently in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405211) and “The 'Royal Escape' Close-Hauled in a Breeze” (BHC3600), in the NMM.
This is a rapid but nonetheless accurate drawing and it has been approximately dated by its watermark. There is another similar drawing of this vessel in the British Museum, which was probably a preparatory work for finished oil paintings of the same subject. These pictures are “The ‘Royal Escape’ in a Breeze” by Van de Velde the Younger, dated before 1685 and currently in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405211) and “The 'Royal Escape' Close-Hauled in a Breeze” (BHC3600), in the NMM.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH1887 |
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| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Velde, Willem van de, the Younger |
| Vessels: | Royal Escape 1660 [British] |
| Date made: | 1685? |
| People: | Velde, Willem van de, the Younger |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 251 x 366 mm; Mount: 481 mm x 634 mm |