File:The Dutch ship Oosterwijk under sail near the shore, in two positions RMG BHC0863.tiff
Original file (4,364 × 3,206 pixels, file size: 40.03 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
Summary
Willem van de Velde the Elder: The Dutch ship Oosterwijk under sail near the shore, in two positions
  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
|
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author |
Willem van de Velde, the Elder |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
The Dutch ship Oosterwijk under sail near the shore, in two positions  |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: The Dutch ship Oosterwijk under sail near the shore, in two positions A grisaille on panel showing the same ship in two positions. On the right is the ‘Oosterwijk’ standing out from the shore. She has a common Dutch flag at the main and a plain flag as an ensign. A ship’s barge can be seen pulling away from her for the shore in the left foreground. On the shore there is a horse and cart, a rider on horseback and several people sitting or standing, surveying the scene. A weyschuit with two men in it is about to reach the shore. On the left is another view of the ‘Ooosterwijk’, this time she is shown running parallel with the shore. She flies the common Dutch ensign. In the right background, is a small ship which may be the ‘Vollenhoven’ as she has a cross with a star in each quarter and a fifth cross in the centre. There are several ships at anchor in centre background and it is possible that one of these may be the ‘Tromp’. The ‘Oosterwijk’ was an Amsterdam ship of 56-guns built in 1653. She was probably named after Willem van Lyere who was lord of the manner of Oosetrwijk and a councillor in the Admiralty in Amsterdam. She can be identified by the view on her stern which can be interpreted as the country house of Oosterwijk from a drawing of the house by R. Rogham’s in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam. Here she is shown as an Amsterdam ship with the arms of Amsterdam and lion supporters at the stern, as well as the crossed anchors and AA of the Admiralty at Amsterdam. The grisaille is signed ‘W.V.Velde 1654’ on the lower left on plank in black pigment in cursive script on spar. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1654 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painting: 915 mm x 1220 mm; Frame: 1105 mm x 1430 mm x 100 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
BHC0863 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Signed and dated 1654. Acquisition: initially given the number 1927-187. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12355 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Identifier | Acquisition Number: 1927-329 Robinson Cat No: 277 id number: BHC0863 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 13:38, 26 September 2017 |  | 4,364 × 3,206 (40.03 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1654), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12355 #1428 |
File usage
The following 4 pages use this file: