A sea fight, probably the Battle of Lowestoft, June 1665
Drawing
1665 (made)
1665 (made)
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The Battle of Lowestoft, which took place on 13 June 1665, was the opening engagement of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch, whose flagship the Eendracht was blown up, were heavily defeated, but the English never followed up their advantage. As a drawing by the elder van de Velde of the Battle after the Blowing-up of the Eendracht, in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, shows, both the Hilversum and the Carolus Quintus were present at the battle.
Object details
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| Title | A sea fight, probably the Battle of Lowestoft, June 1665 (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with grey wash. |
| Brief description | Drawing, A sea fight, probably the Battle of Lowestoft, June 1665, Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch School, 1665 |
| Physical description | The Battle of Lowestoft, which took place on 13 June 1665, was the opening engagement of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch, whose flagship the Eendracht was blown up, were heavily defeated, but the English never followed up their advantage. As a drawing by the elder van de Velde of the Battle after the Blowing-up of the Eendracht, in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, shows, both the Hilversum and the Carolus Quintus were present at the battle. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed along the bottom, in brown ink, helverson mattyse (‘the Hilversum Matthijs’), Oranje, desise(?) ostundiende (‘Oranje, this is(?) an East Indiaman’), and Karloquintus (the Carolus Quintus). |
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| Object history | Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (NAL dry stamp on recto and Dalton Bequest purple ink stamp on verso of lining; neither in Lugt), 1900. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 214, illustrated, p 254. |
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| Accession number | D.917-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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