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The image displays a scene featuring a ship sailing near a castle-like shore. The composition shows buildings along the coast with towers and spires reaching up to the sky. The style of the artwork is etching, with intricate cross-hatched lines depicting texture. The color scheme is monochromatic in shades of brown and sepia. Waves are detailed with lines to convey motion. Smaller boats with sails are visible closer to the shore, and there are fluffy clouds and birds in the sky.
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The image displays a scene featuring a ship sailing near a castle-like shore. The composition shows buildings along the coast with towers and spires reaching up to the sky. The style of the artwork is etching, with intricate cross-hatched lines depicting texture. The color scheme is monochromatic in shades of brown and sepia. Waves are detailed with lines to convey motion. Smaller boats with sails are visible closer to the shore, and there are fluffy clouds and birds in the sky.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Armed Four-Master Putting Out to Sea

Frans Huys after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Date
1565
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 22 × 28.7 cm (8 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.) mount: 27.5 × 36 cm (10 13/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1964.8.395
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Warships

Subjects and terms

  • Netherlandish
  • engraving
  • Ship
  • Boat
  • City
  • Sea
  • Figures
Inscription

lower left, in image, in plate: .F.H. [artist's monogram] bruegel; in lower margin, at bottom right: .Cum. privileg

NGA object ID 47597. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.