The head of a Dutch yacht<br><p>The head and starboard side, of a yacht; the figurehead is a merlion holding a sword in the right paw and supporting a small shield with the left. Close abaft the lion a cherub riding on a dolphin; and abaft that, a hawsehole decorated with a dolphin and figure.
</p><p>This is a pencil and brown ink drawing by the Younger, signed in brown ink ‘W.V.VJ.’ It is inscribed ‘17 w 9.’<br></p>
The head of a Dutch yacht
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Van de Velde, William, the Younger</div>
circa 1686 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1686-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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