Art Institute of Chicago
Three-Masted Ship Steering to the Right
Master W with the KeyLinkedCulture matchlcp-b962e58fb38c
- Date
- c. 1467
- Medium
- Engraving in black on buff laid paper
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 84759
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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