Aa-schipper Posted March 10, 2022 #1 Posted March 10, 2022 Till the end of March 2022 a great overview exhibition of the ship drawings and paintings by father and son Van de Velde can be seen in the Maritime Museum, Amsterdam (NL). While I am not sure one could build a model from this line drawing of a yacht by the son (made ca. 1675), isn't this an irresistible combination of technique and art? I could not resist sharing this with all of you, anyway. thibaultron, Beef Wellington, Roger Pellett and 10 others 11 2 Quote Current build: privateer brig Mars Completed: Sperwer (Billing Boats; 1st wooden model) Batavia (Revell plastic kit)
amateur Posted March 10, 2022 #2 Posted March 10, 2022 The exhibition will be open till May 8th. And I think a model can be done from this sketch. Jan mtaylor, thibaultron and Aa-schipper 3 Quote
Harvey Golden Posted March 10, 2022 #3 Posted March 10, 2022 What a lovely mix of technical and artistic representation! mtaylor, thibaultron and Aa-schipper 3 Quote
Bob Cleek Posted March 10, 2022 #4 Posted March 10, 2022 The guy with the violin seems oddly out of place. There had to be a story there. druxey, mtaylor and thibaultron 3 Quote
wefalck Posted March 10, 2022 #5 Posted March 10, 2022 Didn’t Ab Hoving built a model after this drawing? thibaultron, druxey, Aa-schipper and 1 other 4 Quote wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux
Aa-schipper Posted March 10, 2022 Author #6 Posted March 10, 2022 17 minutes ago, Bob Cleek said: The guy with the violin seems oddly out of place. There had to be a story there. Haha, might it be Jack Aubrey’s great-grandfather? (For our Patrick O’Brian fans) The drawing was made too early to make us think it’s Haendel practicing his Water music, because that only premiered in 1717… druxey, Bob Cleek, mtaylor and 1 other 4 Quote Current build: privateer brig Mars Completed: Sperwer (Billing Boats; 1st wooden model) Batavia (Revell plastic kit)
druxey Posted March 10, 2022 #7 Posted March 10, 2022 He's explaining to the other men what a fiddle block looks like.... Bob Cleek, thibaultron, mtaylor and 1 other 1 3 Quote Be sure to sign up for an epic Nelson/Trafalgar project if you would like to see it made into a TV series http://trafalgar.tv
Aa-schipper Posted March 10, 2022 Author #8 Posted March 10, 2022 26 minutes ago, wefalck said: Didn’t Ab Hoving built a model after this drawing? Dear Wefalck, Did you mean this one? That was from another drawing, by the elder Van de Velde, if I see it correctly. thibaultron 1 Quote Current build: privateer brig Mars Completed: Sperwer (Billing Boats; 1st wooden model) Batavia (Revell plastic kit)
wefalck Posted March 10, 2022 #9 Posted March 10, 2022 I was quoting from memory and my memory sometimes is not the best anymore ... so obviously I only scored a near hit. As to the violin: these were used, inter alia, as 'party boats', so not surprising that there would be also some musical entertainment. thibaultron and Aa-schipper 2 Quote wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux
Bob Cleek Posted March 11, 2022 #10 Posted March 11, 2022 4 hours ago, wefalck said: As to the violin: these were used, inter alia, as 'party boats', so not surprising that there would be also some musical entertainment. That's true. I was hoping somebody wasn't using a Stradivarius as a paddle! If anybody in the world would know the back story on that paddle, it would be Ab Hoving. thibaultron and mtaylor 2 Quote
Ab Hoving Posted June 5, 2022 #11 Posted June 5, 2022 Sorry, I have not been paying attention for a long time. Actually, I did nothing, but I asked my friend Rene Hendrickx to work van de Velde's sketch out in 3D with Delftship and he came out with this: For anyone interested to build the model, here is the Delftship file: VANDEVELDE 008.fbm Be my (our) guest. Ab thibaultron, mtaylor, wefalck and 2 others 4 1 Quote
Ab Hoving Posted June 5, 2022 #12 Posted June 5, 2022 Oh, and indeed such yachts were used for pleasure only. And in that case, shouldn't there be music on board as well? thibaultron, bruce d and mtaylor 3 Quote
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