Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14067

    Dutch ships in a storm

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Matthys Balen (1684 - 1766, Dutch) , Draughtsman
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCNR60744
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 199mm
    width (print): 175mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    transport
       > ship
    Description
    Marine landscape showing the three Dutch ships Arend, Thienhoven, and Afrikaansche Galey in a storm at sea, with heavy waves and lightning flashes.

    Plate from the book Tweejarige Reyze rondom de wereld ter nader ontdekkinge der onbekende zuydlanden, met drie schepen in het jaar 1721 (Dordrecht, Hendrik de Koning, 1764). Inscribed above: ‘Pag.13’. Inscribed lower left ‘M: Balen inv.’

    The accompanying text states that: ‘Den 11 December, als wy gekomen waaren op de hoogte van 33 graden 58 min. Zuyderbreedte, wierden wy van eenen ysselyken storm beloopen. De lucht eerst deyzig en vol nevel begon geweldig te betrekken, en de swarte rondom hangende wolken dreven van alle kanten snel aan, en na den andern toe’. [On December 11, when we came the height of 33 degrees 58 min. in the southern latitude we were promised an icy storm. First the air was dense and full of mist, and it began to come in; and the black clouds hanging all around drifted from all sides and back…’

    The expedition of Jacob Roggeveen (1659-1729) Dutch explorer voyaged across the Pacific in the years 1721-1722.
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