Portrait of the ‘Mordaunt’, viewed from close under the port quarter. The ship was fourth-rate of 46-guns, built privately for Lord Mordaunt in 1681, and purchased for the Navy in 1683. It was wrecked in 1693.

On the broadside the drawing shows ten guns each on the gun deck and upper deck, and five on the quarter deck. There is a small royal arms on the stern between two stern galleries, with St George’s crosses below the tafferel, as well as above and on the lower gallery rail. There are three stern lanterns on the tafferel. The lower masts and an ensign on a staff, blowing forward, are lightly sketched in pencil. Two figures are depicted on the lower gallery and one looking out of an upper gallery window.

The hull is drawn with more foreshortening than the artist usually used. It is not rubbed on the back but is presumably based on a weak offset. It is inscribed ‘morden’ possibly copying an original inscription, and on the back ‘dit is getekent met mer als een s…/ Lente diferensie en Lagh geseete' [This is drawn with more than a…with a difference in length and sitting low down]. Signed in brown ink ‘W.V.V.J’.