Willem van de Velde II (Leiden 1633-1707 London)
Willem van de Velde II (Leiden 1633-1707 London)

The English ship Tiger from the starboard bow

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Willem van de Velde II (Leiden 1633-1707 London)
The English ship Tiger from the starboard bow
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, on a late 18th Century English mount
14¼ x 20 in. (363 x 506 mm.)
Provenance
P. Sandby (L. 2112).
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London.

Lot Essay

M.S. Robinson, at the time of the Colnaghi catalogue, dated the present drawing to circa 1675 and identified it with a portrait of the Tiger in the Ingram Collection at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde Drawings. A catalogue of the drawings in the National Maritime Museum made by the Elder and the Younger van de Velde, Cambridge, 1974, II, no. 1106, pl. 98). The Tiger, a fourth-rate ship of 44 guns, was built in 1647 and rebuilt in 1681.

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