- Title:
- Ships and Militia by a Rocky Shore
- Former Title(s):
- English and Dutch Ships with Armed Men by a Rocky, Fortified Shore [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1680
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and ink on prepared canvas
- Dimensions:
- 25 5/8 x 38 7/16 inches (65.1 x 97.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper right: “L 278729 | [logo] | 17”; lower left: “Owner | Mellon, Mr. Paul | Artist Velde, Willem van de Velde | The Elder | Title A Mediterranean Shipping | Scene | National Gallery of Art PM 6634”
Signed and dated, lower left, under rock: "W.V.V.P [??]" [monogram]
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.78
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.78FR
- Subject Terms:
- boats | bridge (built work) | castle | cliff | expedition | fort | galleys (watercraft) | geology | marine art | men | men-of-war | militia | promontory | rocks (landforms) | rowboats | science | sea | ships | soldiers | tower (building division)
- Associated Places:
- Mediterranean Sea
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:311
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 230-231, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, pp. 6-7, V 2576 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, pp. 8, 14, V1880 [ORBIS]
Michael Strang Robinson, Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem Van de Velde, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1990, pp. 80-81, no. 69, NJ18 V574 A12 +R62 1990 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Important Old Master Paintings : 3 December 1969, Sotheby's, London, December 3, 1969, pp. 20-21, lot 21, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]