PY4121

Portrait of an English two-decker Long Caption: An English two-deck viewed from forward of the port beam, the ship has wreathed ports and a lion figurehead. It is probably one of the twenty 70-gun ships built as a result of the Defence Act of 1677. On the broadside it carries thirteen guns each on the gun deck and upper deck, three on the forecastle, six on the quarterdeck and two on the poop. A rapid but accurate drawing, not rubbed on the back but probably a weak offset a little worked up with pencil. Signed in brown ink. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAH4121 Artist: Willem van de Velde, the Younger Date: circa 1685 Medium: offset & graphite Size: 302 mm x 575 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.