Document: Dutch Freighters or Flutes (Naues Mercantoriæ Hollandicæ, vulgo VLIETEN) Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian 1647

Holding Institution
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Document ID
MET-25.83.10
Description

Print:  Dutch Freighters or Flutes (Fluyts) (Naues Mercantoriæ Hollandicæ, vulgo VLIETEN) Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian  1647

Document Date
1647

Met Museum Fluyts 1647

Translation
Translation

A longboat approaching two Dutch fluyts anchored .   The fluyt with its big round belly made for an enormous cargo capacity.   At low tide, they were often beached.

Title: Dutch Freighters or Flutes (Naues Mercantoriæ Hollandicæ, vulgo VLIETEN)

Series/Portfolio: Navium Variæ Figuræ et Formæ (Dutch Ships): Twelve plates

Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)

Date: 1647

Medium: Etching; first or second state of two, the number may have been abraded

Dimensions: Plate: 5 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (14.4 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (14.6 × 23.5 cm)

References

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain

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Link
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361526