3-043-783 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"A Dutch East Indiaman Hove Down" - painted by G. H. Andrews - from the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1856. Engraving of a painting of a sailing ship undergoing repairs. 'The hulk which Mr. Andrews renders so inimitably speaks of rough voyages round the Cape by the daring descendants ot Vasco de Gama, Van Diemen, and Van Tromp, It has a look about it of the Straits of Mozambique, with a smack of Rotterdam and the Zuyder Zee'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.