Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch 1611-1693- A peasant woman carrying two babies on her back; pen and brown ink and grey wash on laid paper, 11.5 x 7 cm. Provenance: Collection of Earl Cawdor.; With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London.; Private Collection, UK, since 1964.; By descent. Note: This belongs to a considerable group of figure studies which had been variously attributed (to Jan Porcellis and others) but were convincingly shown by Sir Bruce Ingram to be by the elder van de Velde (see his note in the catalogue of 'Masters of Maritime Art, a second Loan Exhibition', Colnaghi, London, March 1937).Please refer to department for condition report