# Mustering the Fleet in the Harbor of Vlissingen, 1804

- By: Engel Hoogerheyden (Middelburg, 1740–1809)
- Date: 1804 - 1805
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: grisaille
- Dimensions: depth 3 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2405--fd88622549096c5c4b87720b7a473695)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1ccc8bba296d7a03948be879d05cda2c.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Embarkation and departure of the fleet at Flushing harbour by E. van Hoogerheyden and J. Schwartzenbach, c. 1805. France and the Batavian Republic, as the country was known from 1795 to 1806, were allies. In 1804 a large Dutch naval fleet sailed to the harbour of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in North France. They were earmarked for the French emperor Napoleon's plans to invade the British Isles. The invasion never took place.