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The Keelhauling of the Ship’s Surgeon of Admiral Jan van Nes
Also titled Het kielhalen van de scheepschirurgijn van admiraal Jan van Nes
Lieve Pietersz. Verschuier (Gorinchem, 1623–1686)
1660 - 1686
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
According to tradition, the surgeon of Admiral van Nes was keelhauled: this was a severe punishment whereby the condemned man was dragged beneath the ship’s keel on a rope. It served as a terrible warning to all mariners. Hundreds of men are eagerly watching the spectacle. Some are pointing at the surgeon, who hangs from the foremast of the warship, hand and feet bound, as he is hoisted overboard.
