Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Title:
An English Man-of-War, Port View from the Stern
Date:
ca. 1675
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 1/4 x 26 7/16 inches (43.8 x 67.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower left: "1—59 | 3"; on mount, lower center to lower right: "The Tiger - | The basis of this is an object from an outline drawing at Greenwich (Ingram C[...]) (MR 2nd vol. 1106 and pub 98) | to upp[...] 1967"; on mount, lower right: "D29771"; on back of mount, center: "AN ENGLISH MAN-O'-WAR, STARBOARD BOW VIEW, | PROBABLY ONE OF THE SIXTY GUN SHIPS, MONRANISED(?) ABOUT 1675, A THIRD RATE SHIP, | BY | WILLIAM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER, | (1633-1707) | COLLECTION - PAUL SANDBY | DRAWINGS EXIST OF THE YORK; PLYMOUTH & MONCK; | THIS DRAWING MIGHT BE OF THE LION; DUNKIRK OR GLOUCESTER."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
Publications:
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 148-149, cat. 11, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)