BHC0905

A Dutch ship scudding before a storm Long Caption: A Dutch ship scudding before a storm On the left is a ship, in starboard-broadside view, running before the storm in a heavy sea. Her main and mizzen yards are lowered and the fore course is clewed up on a half-lowered yard but not furled, leaving a little bit of sail. Her fore topmast has been struck and she seems to have lost her bowsprit, and the forestay has been cut away. She has Dutch pennants at the fore and the mizzen although the staff for a flag at the main is bare. Credit line: ©National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Object: BHC0905; Artist: Willem van de Velde, the Younger Date: circa 1690 Medium: oil on canvas Size: 572 mm x 737 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.