This ship portrait is viewed from the port quarter. The ship has twenty small, rectangular sweep-ports illustrated low on the gundeck. On the ship’s tafferel are two robust cherubs, collectively supporting a crowned coat of arms. The same ship is shown in a drawing of the ‘Charles Galley’ of 1688 by Jeremy Roch, this time with three guns on the quarterdeck and twenty-one sweeps.

It is possibly based on an offset which has been cleanly worked up along the side. Some of the drawing’s decoration has also been strengthened with pen: this is notably visible on the side of the ship. The rather untidy work on the tafferel appears untouched. The inscription on the drawing may be by the hand of Willem van de Velde the Younger, but the inaccuracy of the drawing, the exaggerated length for the amount of stern seen, the oversized breadth of the forecastle (the forwards part of the ship) and the muddled appearance of the vessel’s stern decoration cannot be reconciled with van de Velde’s later work.

The work has been approximately dated by its subject matter.