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An English Royal Yacht

Willem van de Velde the Elder · ca. 1677

Willem van de Velde the Elder: Dutch, 1611 - 1693

UnclassifiedNetherlands

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An English Royal Yacht

ca. 1677

Pencil, brush and gray ink and gray wash. · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Pencil, brush and gray ink and gray wash.
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10 11/16 x 14 7/8 in. (27.1 x 37.8 cm)
Collection no.
1975.1.810
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Willem van de Velde the Elder. An English Royal Yacht. Willem van de Velde the Elder; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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An English Royal Yacht — Willem van de Velde the Elder. ca. 1677.

Medium: Pencil, brush and gray ink and gray wash.. Dimensions: 10 11/16 x 14 7/8 in. (27.1 x 37.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

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Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Willem van de Velde the Elder. An English Royal Yacht. Willem van de Velde the Elder; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.