Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys near Calais, 3 October 1602

• Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the English Coast, 3 October 1602
• Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys near Calais, 3 October 1602

Hollandse schepen overzeilen Spaanse galeien onder de Vlaamse kust, 3 oktober 1602

SK-A-460

signature and date, top centre on the flag: ‘VROOM 1617’

Terror emanates from the bald-shaven and half-naked galley slaves. While the soldiers aboard still have a chance to escape, the enslaved crew remains chained to the rowing benches, condemned to face death by drowning. The Dutch revolt against Spain unfolded primarily at sea, where the Spanish galleys proved powerless against the robust Dutch three-masters that simply rammed into them.

Documentatiemap: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

• painter: Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom
• painter: Cornelis Hendriksz. Vroom

1617

olieverf op doek

• height 118 cm x width 151 cm
• depth 6.5 cm

Public domain

...; ? estate inventory 1632, Oude Hof, The Hague, no. 244 (`schilderie van Vroom daer de schepen met de galeyen vechten´);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer I, 1974, p. 208, no. 632.}...; first recorded in the museum, 7 December 1800{Moes/Van Biema 1909, p. 37, 217; Van Thiel 1981a, p. 186, no. 22.}

• Documentatiemap: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).
• J.F.L. de Balbian Verster, '...', Bulletin Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige Bond VI (1951 of 1905?), p. 165.
• H. Jantzen, 'De ruimte in de Hollandsche zeeschildering', Onze Kunst (1910) XVIII, p. 105-107 met afb.
• S.W.A. Drossaers, 'Inventaris van de meubelen van het stadhouderlijk kwartier met het speelhuis en van het huis in het Noordeinde te 's-Gravenhage', Oud Holland (1930), p. 193 vgl., p. 232, nr. 244?

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