Shipping in Choppy Seas

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Artist/Maker	Johannes Christiaan Schotel (artist)
Place of origin	Netherlands (made)

In the left foreground is a seagoing tjalk (barge) and to itsright, at centre, is a ship of the line (or a navy frigate). This pair of ships is flanked in the middle ground by a hoeker (a ship used for fishing) on the left and another tjalk on the right.

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Drawing
Title	Shipping in Choppy Seas (published title)
Materials and techniques	Pen and black ink, with grey wash, over black chalk; framing line in brown ink. Paper Pen Ink Grey Wash Chalk Brown Ink Drawing
Brief description	Drawing 'Shipping in Choppy Seas', by Johannes Christiaan Schotel (attributed to), Dutch School. Pen and black ink, with grey wash, over black chalk, 19th century.
Physical description	In the left foreground is a seagoing tjalk (barge) and to itsright, at centre, is a ship of the line (or a navy frigate). This pair of ships is flanked in the middle ground by a hoeker (a ship used for fishing) on the left and another tjalk on the right.
Dimensions	Height: 326mm Width: 450mm
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed at lower left, in black ink (with false monogram), L.B Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s inv. no.), 6782 Inscribed on mount, at upper left, in brown ink, 76 Inscribed at upper right, in pencil, 12 Inscribed at lower left, after 1750 and other information about Bakhuijzen (now erased); and at lower left centre, in pencil, modern Schotel or Kobell.
Object history	Thomas Dyer Edwardes;1 by whom given to the museum (dry stamp version of L. 1958), 11 November 1868.
Bibliographic reference	Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 193, illus. p.237.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	6782

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1017973/shipping-in-choppy-seas-drawing-johannes-christiaan-schotel/

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