BHC0908

Calm: an English sixth-rate firing a salute Long Caption: A variety of shipping is shown in a calm. In the foreground on the left a small boat with two figures on board is rowing towards the left. One figure works at the oars and the other is standing up in the boat and attends to a fishing net on the starboard side. To the right is an elaborately decorated sixth-rate ship in port-quarter view. It is has been suggested that the main vessel is the 'Peregrine Galley', which was a 20-gun ship built at Sheerness in 1700, since it resembles an annotated pen and ink drawing of this vessel with manuscript notes relating to her decoration. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: BHC0908 Artist: Willem van de Velde, the Younger Date: 1706 Medium: oil on canvas Size: 419 mm x 368 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.