The launch of a large Dutch ship<br><p>In the middle-distance, viewed from slightly on the starboard bow, there is a large ship with only her lowermasts stepped and fore topmast swayed up. A crowd of boats and small yachts are round her. In the left foreground there is a stern view of a boeier yacht making for the ship with the wind on the port quarter.
</p><p>This is a pencil and wash drawing by the Younger, signed ‘W.V.VJ.’ It is inscribed with an ‘L’ (light) in the sky.<br></p>
The launch of a large Dutch ship
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Willem Van de Velde, the Younger</div>
circa 1665 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1665-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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