WILLEM VAN DE VELDE I (LEIDEN CIRCA 1611-1693 LONDON)

The drawing of this Danish ship, built in 1650 and condemned in 1687, has been dated to 1667. The drawing is an extensively reworked counterproof, apparently the correct way round, of a lost original black chalk drawing. Another reworked counterproof
showing the entire ship is at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (inv. MB 1866/T 360; The Willem van de Velde Drawings in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 1979, I, p. 130, III, pls. 320, 321); another view of the same ship in reverse, probably a counterproof of a counterproof of the original, is in the same collection (inv. MB 1866/T 330; ibid., I, p. 130, III, pl. 322). A counterproof of the rear of the ship is at the Victorian and Albert Museum, London (inv. 4685; J. Shoaf Turner, Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, no. 272).