An English sixth rate at anchor<br><p>A port quarter view of a sixth rate, possibly the ‘Saudadoes’ lying at anchor in a light air. Her fore course loosed in the brails and her spritsail and spritsail topsail loosed. Two sprit-rigged wherries alongside. A high coastline in the distance.
</p><p>Possibly part of a drawing made during the voyage of the Prince of Orange and Princes Mary of Holland in 1677.
</p><p>This is an unsigned pencil and wash drawing by the Elder.<br></p>
An English sixth rate at anchor
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Willem Van de Velde, the Elder</div>
circa 1677 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1677-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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