Decoration of the head (for a yacht to be built for the Van de Veldes)
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Decoration of the head (for a yacht to be built for the Van de Veldes)
The bow of the yacht on the starboard side, showing dolphin and merman decoration on the rail close to the stem, and a similar design round the hawsehole.
Above is a sketch of the same part, but showing the head of the stem coming above the rail.
This is an unsigned pencil drawing by the Younger, touched with pen and brown ink.
This is one of ten sketch plans of a small Dutch-type bezan yacht, which the Younger was designing for himself. They are identified by the coat of arms, as a similar arms surrounded by the initials
Willem van de Velde, the Younger
Original size: 245 mm x 138 mm
- Image reference: PW6572
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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