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A three-masted warship against a sky piled with clouds fills most of the right half of this vertical painting. The cream-white sails are bright in the sunlight, and tiny deckhands work along the horizontal yards and along the rigging. The flat stern faces us and is decorated with a rearing lion and unicorn on either side of a shield among gold molding. Eight hatches along the port side of the ship are lifted, and smoke shoots out of one of the cannons poking through the openings. Six men row a boat carrying seven more men to the left. A large flag fluttering from the stern has a red and…

An English Warship Firing a Salute

Willem van de Velde the Younger (Dutch, 1633 - 1707)

1673 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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