An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels (Custom Print) Frame:White Designed with practicality in mind

Designed with practicality in mind

minimizing the aberration

unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power

fascination and symbolic significance

An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels (Custom Print) Frame:White Designed with practicality in mindAn 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,