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Three-Masted Ship Steering to the Right

A work made of engraving in black on buff laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of engraving in black on buff laid paper.

Date:

c. 1467

Artist:

Master W with the Key
Netherlandish, active 1465-1490

About this artwork

This impressive bark (a kind of small ship) on roiling waves is part of a series of nine engravings of ships made by this unidentified master, who has been thought to be the goldsmith Willem vander Cruce, active in Bruges about 1465–90, where there was a major ship-building industry. Some of the prints in the Master W. with the Key’s ship series offer the earliest evidence of new technical advances developed in Bruges. The master is thought to have worked for the Dukes of Burgundy; these unpopulated ships could also depict sculpted table centerpieces from the lavish marriage feast of Charles the Bold, held in Bruges in 1467.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Master W with the Key

Title

Three-Masted Ship Steering to the Right

Place

Flanders (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1460–1480

Medium

Engraving in black on buff laid paper

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 16.4 × 11.7 cm (6 1/2 × 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.

Reference Number

1955.1231

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