An English ship under easy sail<br><p>In the right foreground, a port broadside view of a ship before the wind with her fore and main topsails half-mast high and shaking. In the background, left and right, two ships in the wind with their topsails aback.
</p><p>This is an unsigned pencil and wash drawing by the Elder, though it may possibly be by the Younger, like PAF6896 to PAF6909; but the black and rather untidy wash and the ruled horizon are more like the work of the Elder.<br></p>
An English ship under easy sail
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Willem Van de Velde, the Elder</div>
circa 1675 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1675-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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