Portrait of a (fantasized?) English ship with Justitia on the mirror. Portrait of a (fantasized?) English ship with Justitia on the mirror. That this is a back pressure shows, among other things, from the fact that the letters R and C and the weapon of England, the Stuart Royal Standard, are in mirror image. The letters must therefore be read as CR (Carolus Rex). It cannot be excluded that this is a fantasy ship. The drawing has large similarities with two other worked clerks from the Oude van de Velde in Rotterdam, one of whom bears the inscription: Proposed ships has ordained Vande / Naer Eÿ
Portrait of a (fantasized?) English ship with Justitia on the mirror. Portrait of a (fantasized?) English ship with Justitia on the mirror. That this is a back pressure shows, among other things, from the fact that the letters R and C and the weapon of England, the Stuart Royal Standard, are in mirror image. The letters must therefore be read as CR (Carolus Rex). It cannot be excluded that this is a fantasy ship. The drawing has large similarities with two other worked clerks from the Oude van de Velde in Rotterdam, one of whom bears the inscription: Proposed ships has ordained Vande / Naer Eÿgen Fantazenen / & treated. Like the drawing in the Rijksprentenkabinet, the English fantasy ships in Rotterdam have a sculpture of Lady Justice, recognizable by sword and scales on the mirror. There are more similarities of English ships that are likely to be devised by Van de Velde itself. A number of them are on paper with the same watermark as the drawing described here, a mark that is found especially in the second half of the 1960s, but also occasionally around 1672-73. By Muller related to the trip to Chatham, 1667.
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Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
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