An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels (Custom Print) Frame:White fascination and symbolic significance

fascination and symbolic significance

unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power

Designed with practicality in mind

the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate

the food chain

An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels (Custom Print) Frame:White fascination and symbolic significanceAn English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels by Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1678, oil on canvas. Throughout the 17th century, Barbary pirates operated along the North African coast. They attacked vessels from any nation trading in the Mediterranean Sea, and raided ports and coastal cities. This painting shows one of the many battles that took place between them and English merchant ships. Though van de Velde the Younger was not at the action,